Paul Boyd (director)

Paul Boyd is a Scottish music video, commercial and feature film director.

Born in Scotland, Boyd graduated from St. Martin's School of Art in London with a BA in Fine Art Film. He currently works and resides in Los Angeles.

Boyd directed and authored Vicious Circle, a feature film starring Paul Rodriguez Jr, Emily Rios, and Trevor Wright, which received the Best Picture Award at the 2008 NYILFF HBO. He has directed advertising campaigns for L'Oreal, Revlon, Jaguar and Dodge.

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Paul Boyd (animator)

Paul Boyd (September 30, 1967 – August 13, 2007) was an American-born Canadian animator. He was a member of a.k.a. Cartoon, the production team for the Cartoon Network longest running hit television series, Ed, Edd n' Eddy as a title sequence animator and director. He was responsible for creating the opening sequence of the series. He began his career working for International Rocketship on two Gary Larson specials. During his career he taught at Vancouver Film School and worked at many animation studios in Vancouver. His work directing for Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show!, along with co-director Moose Pagen, was nominated for an Annie Award in 2001.

He was shot and killed on August 13, 2007, by a police officer in downtown Vancouver. A video recorded by tourists showed Boyd being shot nine times after wielding a bicycle chain at officers who came to respond to an emotional disturbance involving him. The ninth shot that struck Boyd was fired as he was on the ground. The officer who shot Boyd was cleared in the death. The use of force was criticized by many of Boyd's colleagues and relatives.

Paul Boyd (journalist)

Paul Graham Boyd (born November 7, 1976) is an American television journalist. Born in Canada, he moved to New York City in 2001 to work for the syndicated news magazine Inside Edition and became a U.S. citizen in 2010. He served as a co-anchor of Inside Edition Weekend until May 2014.

Early life

Boyd was born in Selkirk, Manitoba. His family moved to Port Alberni, British Columbia in the early 1980s where he and his two brothers were raised. He graduated as class valedictorian from Alberni District Secondary School in 1994.

Boyd has credited his high school media production program for sparking his interest in journalism when he was 16 years old. He appeared on a daily morning television show produced by students and broadcast throughout the school via closed-circuit television. One of his high school video segments was called "Fire Marshall Paul", an adaptation of the Jim Carrey character Fire Marshall Bill from the television show, In Living Color.

While a senior in high school, Boyd placed 2nd in a national video contest promoting safe driving. He was named top male vocalist at the West Coast Vocal Jazz Festival when he was 18 years old.