Finn Paul is a Los Angeles based filmmaker and social worker interested in humanism, personal experience and trans masculinity. Much of his work revolves around landscape, nostalgia, survival, and healing. His projects have addressed trans masculine sexual agency, homelessness, family history, and solitude. Finn Paul makes films most often in the range of documentary essays. Screenings of his film and videos include the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Transocular, MIX NYC, Outfest, Frameline, Redcat, Xposed Berlin, and MIX Copenhagen. Curatorial projects also focus on the queer and trans experience, and have toured internationally with venues such as the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Outfest, Anthology Film Archives, and Los Angeles Filmforum. Finn’s projects have been written about in Hyperallergic and Sissy Screens. Additionally, his work has been seen in publications, Put a Egg On It and Little Joe.

Finn Paul's practice draws from the quotidian to make queer bonds and sociality into art. Born in Bellflower, CA in 1981, he is a filmmaker and artist whose work addresses themes of historiography, selfhood, and truth-telling in and out of the context of queer and trans communities. In an enactment towards healing and the ways radical honesty can confluence in everyday, commonplace means, he takes up his own identity as a locus for the complexities and traumas of the lives inextricably bound with his: friends, family, and the array of social texts that influence queer and trans culture. Working with moving and still image, performance and writing, his work has screened at Outfest, Mix NYC, Frameline, the Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Kreives/Vilnias LGBT Festivalis, Northside Film Festival, Athens International Film Festival, San Francisco Short Film Festival, Twist: Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Redcat, the Echo Park Film Center, and ATA.

Finn Paul (he/they; born Los Angeles 1981) is a social worker and filmmaker making diaristic film essays which draw from queer bonds and the everyday. His works often happen alongside and with his chosen queer and trans family, working from an anti-oppression, community-based ethos. Screenings of his film and videos include the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, International Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Transocular, MIX NYC, Outfest, Frameline, Redcat, Xposed Berlin, and MIX Copenhagen. Curatorial projects also focus on the queer and trans experience, and have toured internationally with venues such as the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Outfest, Anthology Film Archives, and Los Angeles Filmforum. Finn’s projects have been written about in Hyperallergic and Sissy Screens. Additionally, his work has been seen in publications, Put a Egg On It and Little Joe.