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 Boyington Studios Canada Inc. 

Montreal, Quebec Canada media content company owned by Paul S. Boyington

PAUL STEPHEN BOYINGTON  DIRECTOR - SCREENWRITER - PRODUCER - VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR - 2ND UNIT DIRECTOR

Paul Stephen Boyington, is a Hollywood Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Visual Effects Supervisor and 2nd Unit Director. He won a Prime Time Emmy Award for his Visual Effects work on the Primetime CBS show “The Last Halloween”. He was also nominated for a Prime Time Emmy for Title Design for "Friday the 13th - The Series,” as well as a nomination for the Canadian Television Gemini Award, (Canadian Emmy), for his visual effects work on the “The Outer Limits” television series, for which he was the visual effects supervisor. His TV credits include the “The Steve Harvey Show," "War of the Worlds," "Key West," “The Outer Limits,” and "Friday the 13th - The Series”. Paul directed the episode “Perchance to Dream," for the dramatic television series, “Monsters“. On the feature side, his visual effects supervision and title design credits include “Nightmare on Elm Street 2 Freddy’s Revenge," "Surviving the Game," “Bulletproof," “Ironweed," “Iron Eagle III” “Invaders from Mars” and the iconic Tom Hanks’ comedy "Dragnet". He was the 2nd Unit Director on the films, “NYC: Tornado Terror“ and “Nature Unleashed:Earthquake”. One of the highlights of Paul Boyington’s career was to direct and design the visual effects production for the opening title sequence, as well as supervise all other visual effects for Tim Burton’s feature film, “Ed Wood”. Another highlight was to supervise and produce the visual effects for the “dream sequences” for the acclaimed film “Eve’s Bayou," starring Samuel L. Jackson.

For over twenty years Paul ran his own visual effects studio and commercial production company, where he directed and produced commercials, music videos and supervised visual effects projects, for the film, television, music and advertising industry. Currently he is writing screenplays and producing and directing content for film and television.

Born: Paul Stephen Boyington, (July 6, 1953,). He works as a film director, screenwriter, visual effects supervisor, 2nd unit director and producer in the film and television industry in Los Angeles.

He was born at a hospital in Boise Idaho, his mother’s Elizabeth E. Boyington’s childhood home on July 6, 1953.

Early Life: Six weeks later he moved to Pullman Washington where his mother and father lived. His father Alfred Merrill Boyington, was a professor of music and headed the string department and conducted Washington State College orchestra from the 1930s to the 1960s. Alfred was head of the string department which included teaching the areas of violin viola cello and string bass he was active in the north west recruiting students from the best high schools to attend Washington State University in the orchestra department Paul’s mother Elizabeth Burns Boyington who is the daughter of Paul Bayard and Margret Earle of Boise, Idaho. Elizabeth was also an educator and earned two masters degrees in her lifetime. She also help start a fund through the nonprofit PEO group, which is a women’s philanthropic educational organization a scholarship fund entitled PCE, (The Program for Continuing Education,) which to date has raised over $50 million to give out as scholarships to women continuing their education worldwide.

Paul growing up in Pullman, was active in sports. including playing high school football, baseball and also played baseball and track in junior Highschool. He was also an avid outdoorsman and utilized the Palouse farm country and the great wildlife of the northwest as a natural habitat that he embraced.

He was Hight influenced by his father‘s artistic ability and creative mind who as a Juilliard trained violinist and orchestra conductor was a major influence in Paul’s decision to have a career in entertainment and the visual arts. Paul was influenced was triggered at an early age by being given the opportunity to attend open houses at various Washington State University departments in both in the areas of science, engineering, veterinary medicine as well as in the arts.

Highschool: Paul attended Pulman High School and in his second year he was able to start taking college level classes for credit at Washington State University in the spealizex areas of fine arts and filmmaking. He also attended Washington State University’s high school summer music, art and theater camp, where he was able to study with working professors in the areas of fine arts, music, theater and broadcast.

Paul was taught at an early age by Victor Moore, his high school art teacher who was a working artist and assemblage sculptor. Paul was also influenced by Pullman’s own internationally recognized fine art jeweler and CWSU fine art proffessor, Ken Cory, who was an early mentor. Paul also was influenced and mentored by electronic sculptor and WSU fine art professor, Jack Dollhausen, WSU fine art professor of ceramics Don Anawalt, WSU fine art professor of sculptor Robert Helm, WSU fine art professor of graphics, Richard “Dick” Thornton, and WSU fine art professor of sculpture and glassblowing, George Laznier.

He was also influenced an early age by WSU fine arts students Sue Burkland Erlanger and Linda Gerritsen, who mentored Paul both in print making, drawing, etching and jewelry design.

In the summers of the late 1960s Paul had had wanderlust and interest in what was going on in Seattle Washington, with the counterculture and so he hitchhiked the 300 miles to Seattle multiple times to be in the world of the changing an underground counter culture of the late 1960s. While on one of those visits he found out that his friend and fine art mentors, Linda Garrettson was living in a house with Sue Burkland and also aspiring blues artist and former Washington state university students Gary Cerutti and Don Mcneff Oldenstat.

After living in the same house with the older Washington state university former students Paul was mentored on the blues harmonica by both Gary and Don their mentorship help Paul form a band back in Pullman that played contemporary blues and rock ‘n’ roll and was entitled, “T. LaRue and the Cadillac”

Which was is road managed by Richard Johnson. Paul played electric harmonica and some of the band members included guitarist, Paul Arntson, keyboardist, Bryan Bishop, bassist, Stu Auller, drummer, Jim Bush and Highway men, Motorcycle gang member and musician, Nick Johnson, who played both lead flute and sax and went on to be a professor music at the University of Idaho and the lead singer was Marie Dee. T La Roux in the Cadillac played for Fraternity and sororities dances as well playing in local bars but they highly light of their tenure was playing the Universal Life Church picnic which was rock festival attended by many thousands of youth at Pend Oreille lake in northern Idaho in the summer of 1971. Paul drove taxi cab for yellow cab in Seattle in the year is 1970 to 71. In 1972 Paul went to school at Columbia College A film and television school in Hollywood, CA. where his desire was to reach more people by studying filmmaking and television broadcast production. He returned to the Northwest to attend Washington State University in theater broadcast and fine arts. He transferred to Western Washington State College in 1974 for a year and then in the fall of 1975 transferred to the University of Washington in Seattle, where he graduated in fine arts and filmmaking in 1977. After college Paul was a “artist in residence” under the federal government funded CETA program with the Seattle Art commission, where he was affiliated with the Washington state protection and advocacy agency for the handicapped and created public service announcements and illustrations for the agency. In the same year he directed produced and co animated the stop motion short film entitled, “King Tut goes to McDonalds,” which was written and co-animated with his then girlfriend, Carrell McCarthy who is also the mother of his son with Paul McCarthy Boyington Jr. born in June 24 1976. In 1979 Paul moved with Carrell and Paul Jr., to the Bay Area where he further developed his career in filmmaking and animation specializing in stop motion clay and early computer animation.

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Boyington, Paul (1992). "OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN Special Visual Effects - 1992 THE LAST HALLOWEEN". https://www.emmys.com/site-search?search_api_views_fulltext=Paul+boyington. line feed character in |title= at position 68 (help); External link in |website= (help)

Boyington, Paul (OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN GRAPHIC DESIGN AND TITLE - 1988). "OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN GRAPHIC DESIGN AND TITLE - 1988". https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1988/outstanding-main-title-design. Archived from the original on 1988. Retrieved https://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/1988/outstanding-main-title-design. Check date values in: |access-date= and |date= (help); External link in |website= (help)

Boyington, Paul Stephen. "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge Original title: A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge". IMDB. line feed character in |title= at position 46 (help); Check |archive-url= value (help)

Boyington, Paul Stephen (Nov 2, 1990). "In a recent article, the Los Angeles Times called Boyington Hollywood's ...master miniaturist He is Paul Boyington, visual effects designer extraordinaire. ...

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Boyington, Paul Stephen (Los Angeles Times). "PAUL BOYINGTON HAS TRANSFORMED CREATIVE EARLY YEARS AT PULLMAN INTO THE TITLE OF HOLLYWOOD'S ... MASTER MINIATURIST". https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-02-ca-45652-story.html. Retrieved 1994. Check date values in: |access-date= and |date= (help); External link in |website= (help)

Boyington, Paul. "Eve's Bayou". IMDB. Check |archive-url= value (help)

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