Paul Mitchell

 
 
 

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Paul Mitchell began his career at ABC News in Moscow during the collapse of Communism.  A fluent Russian speaker, he was working as a local-hire editor/sound-recordist when Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov was released from detention – and ended up interviewing the great man and cutting a package for the US evening news.  

He came to international attention with 'The Death of Yugoslavia’ (BBC 1995) rated by the British Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest British television programs of any genre. 

As both P/D and showrunner, he has made award-winning series on subjects as diverse as Scottish Independence ‘Yes/No: Inside the IndyRef (BBC 2019), perestroika under Gorbachev ‘The Second Russian Revolution’ (BBC 1990); the Obama presidency Inside Obama’s White House(BBC 2016);  pop culture in Global South Alternative Rock and Roll Years (Discovery 2003)  ‘The Clintons: A Marriage of Power’, (C4 1998), the BBC/National Geographic Channel’s’ The Iraq War ‘(2012).  Russia has remained a speciality, with definitive series on both BBC - Putin: Russia & the West (2012) and Channel 4 – Putin: A Russian Spy Story He has also done frontline war reporting from Chechnya for PBS Wide Angle: ‘Greetings from Grozny’. (Edward R Murrow Award, FIPA 2003 Prix de Jury de 15 Chicago International Television Awards and the Rory Peck winning ‘Inside Chechnya’ (BBC 1999).  


Awards: 

  • BAFTA Doc series 1996, Specialist Factual 2019 (Scotland), BAFTA nominee in 1997, 2016, and 2021

  • du-Pont Columbia Journalism award,  1996 Gold Baton, which is rarely awarded

  • The Peabody (x 4 )

  • US Prime Time Emmy

  • Realscreen: NON-FICTION - ARCHIVE-BASED PROGRAM (2021)

  • Grierson award (x 3) 

  • Amnesty Impact Award 2022

  • Royal Television Society Award

  • Broadcasting Press Guild

  • Wincott Award in Economic and Business journalism

  • Silver Hugo Chicago Festival

  • New York Festival

  • Cine Golden Eagle Award

  • FIPA  Prix de Jury de 15 ans

  • Edward R Murrow Award