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Paul Atherton FRSA (born 20 March 1968) is a London based film & television producer and director who specialises in social commentary productions. [1] [2] He is known for being the only person to have screened a film on the Coca Cola billboard on Piccadily Lights at Piccadilly Circus with The Ballet of Change [3] [4] and having his video-diary Our London Lives taken into the permanent collection of the Museum of London. [5] .
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Early life
[edit]Atherton was three months old when he was abandoned in a tent at a disused airport in Cardiff but placed with a white foster family shortly after.[6]
He grew up in the village of Ystrad Mynach in South Wales[7] attending Lewis School Pengam until the age of 16.[8]
He left home at 15, when he spent time in children's homes[9] and completed his "O" Levels. At 16 he set up home on his own against the wishes of Social Services and started work on a Youth Training Scheme in Howells (department store).[10]
He was appointed the Welsh Young Conservatives Press Officer later that year and focused on addressing the issues of homelessness with a programme working with Sixth Forms in schools in Cardiff.[11]
At the age of 21, Atherton was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome.[12]
He attended Cardiff Business School and obtained a BSc Honours Degree in Business Administration in 1994.[13]
While studying he set up a gift delivery company specialising in silk lingerie called "A Touch of Silk" in 1994 which became Vogue Magazine's Valentine gift of choice the following year.[14][15]
- ^ William Thomas (5 November 2008). "Review of Silent Voices DVD". Empire Magazine. No. 233. EMAP Consumer Media. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
- ^ "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - Silent Voices DVD". DVD Monthly. No. 110. Region 2 Reviews Pg 72: Jazz Publishing. December 2008.
{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Elliott Haworth, City AM (16 January 2017). "Goodbye Piccadilly: A short history of the Piccadilly Circus advertising billboards".
- ^ "The Ballet of Change Piccadilly Circus in British Institute Film Archive". British Film Institue Collection. BFI. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ "Our London Lives". Museum of London. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
- ^ South Wales Echo Newspaper (14 September 2012). "How a Rookie Social Worker Turned My Life Around".
- ^ Channel 4: 4thought.tv (2011). "Should White Parents adopt Non-White Children". Archived from the original on 27 July 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ The Big Issue Magazine (2008). "TV Calling".
- ^ Observer Magazine (10 September 1987), Youth Training Schemes The Good & The Bad
- ^ South Wales Echo (23 February 1989), New Press Officer for Welsh Young Conservatives
- ^ "What About ME?" (Trailer). United Kingdom: Double D Productions. 2010. Event occurs at 3:57. Archived from the original on 4 April 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ Cardiff University Magazine (2008). "A Capital Achievement". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
- ^ Sun Newspaper (1994), Charles Props Up Naughty Knickers
- ^ Vogue Magazine (1995), The Perfect Valentines Gift