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PAUL GASEK 1002 Stony Brook Road
Stony Brook Films Brewster, MA 02631 USA
sbfilms@comcast.net 508-896-2562
2011 – Present
Script Writer/Polisher/Story Editor/Narrator – Stony Brook Films
In all cases, scripts were transposed/polished into American idiom and improved for US
broadcast. Some shows were re-versioned and recut to US broadcast clocks as well.
Extreme Homes 3 & 4 (26x60) Pioneer, for HGTV. Kirstie McClure
Border Rico (6x30) Arrow Media, for Travel Channel. Tom Brisely
Metropolis (5x60) Nutopia, for Travel Channel. Jane Root
Connections (3x60) for BBCA Treatments for new episodes. Tim Pastore
Generation Earth (3x60, 1x120) BBC, for Discovery Channel. Helen Thomas
23 Degrees (3x60, 1x120) BBC, for Discovery Channel. Jonathan Renouf
Do We Really Need the Moon? (1x60) BBC, for Discovery Channel Helen Thomas
Planet Dinosaur (6x30) BBC, for Discovery Channel. Andrew Cohen
Frozen Planet (6x60) Re-versioned BBC shows w/ Sir David, for Discovery clock.
The Tipping Points (8x60) Unboxed Media (Sydney), for TWC. Liz Courtney
Steps to Disaster: Meltdown (1x120) English version of NHK Special. Steve Burns
The Lama and the Snow Leopard (1x120) Treatment for Beijing New Century Media.
Superfish (4x60) Treatment for cut-down and re-version. KBS, for KCTS (PBS)
Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (1x40) Paris DeHavilland Limited Richard Dale
Mammoth (3x60) BBC/DSC co-pro; Tim Martin
2006 – 2011
Executive Producer/Senior Science Editor – The Discovery Channel/DCL
Specials, Special series, on-going series including Deadliest Catch.
Collaboration on treatment, shooting script; field production consultation; editorial notes
on all cuts, with writing direction/rewrite for scripts.
DSC/BBC co-productions
Global Warming; What You Need to Know, with Tom Brokaw (1x120)
DSC/NBC version of BBC The Truth About Climate Change (2x60)
Emmy – 2007 Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form
Earthflight (5x60) John Downer
Polar Bears (1x60) John Downer
Pacific Abyss (5x60, 1x120) Tim Martin/Dale Templar
Egypt: What Lies Beneath (1x60) Ludo Graham/Harvey Lilley/Phil Dolling
Pioneer Productions Stuart Carter/Kirstie McClure
How the Universe Works (8x60) inaugural season.
Inside Planet Earth (1x120)
Raging Planet 2 (8x60)
ZED; re-versioned for Science Channel
Tank on the Moon (1x60)
Impossible Pictures Tim Haines/Alan Eyres
10 Ways to Save the Planet (10x60)
talkbackThames Camilla Lewis
911:The Bronx (6x60)

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Dangerous Films Richard Dale/Mike Kemp
Hubble on High (1x60)
DOX David Sington/Duncan Capp
Moon Machines (6x60)
Silverback Films Keith Scholley/Huw Cordey
Wild Planet: North America (7x60);
2001 - 2005
Executive Producer/Producer/Writer/Director –The Science Channel
Re-versioned 50+ hours of programming for US broadcast, including:
BBC The Planets (8x60) refreshed with new sequences, interviews, and CGI.
BBC Horizon: re-versioned, re-wrote, re-voiced, and cut selected Specials to clock.
Battle of the Brains, The Hawking Paradox, Mystery of the Human Hobbit, My Pet
Dinosaur, Six Billion Dollar Experiment, Human v2.0, Moon For Sale, How to
Masturbate an Elephant, I’m the Next Einstein, What on Earth is Wrong with
Gravity.
Arte
Driven to Invent (6x60) German language version, to American, for SCI/DCL
Narrator – 50+ one-hour documentaries, including all Horizon US reversions.
Demo reel at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Y-ozsftyA
2001
Producer/Director/Writer/2nd Camera – Secrets of the Sequence for APT/PBS.
7:30 feature stories for half-hour weekly genetics series. UK locations include
Cambridge, Sanger Center, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
2000
Series Director - Southern African Natural History Unit/ Route 66 (Jo’burg).
Parklife: Africa (13x30) for Animal Planet/DCI/HITEntertainment (UK)
Shot on location in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
1993
Producer/Scout - Discovery Channel/Central TV-London
The Big Race; co-production for 1994. Rupert Wilbraham
Anyone for a winter road trip from London to New York overland, crossing at the Bering
Strait? Maybe not ….
1991
Producer/Writer: “The Mouse that Laid the Golden Egg” (1x60) Biotech
- for The Secret of Life (8x60) PBS/BBC co-pro. Robin Brightwell
1985 - 91
Producer/Director/Writer - National Geographic "Explorer" & "On Assignment"
Job Description: Supervise/research/staff through story development; produce and direct in
the field with 16 mm film crew of 4 or 5; direct edit; set structure, write and/or supervise writer,
editor, composer; direct narration, mix, color correction and final electronic conform.
26 16mm films of between 12:00 and 52:00, on various subjects. 25+ awards
Bells of Whitechapel; How to be a London Cabdriver; The Shepherd and the
Shepherdess.