P.G. Morgan

Writer/Producer

P.G. is Chris Paine's producing partner at Papercut Films. He won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for Non-Fiction Programming for the HBO/BBC film "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired." The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and at the Cannes Film Festival.

Previously, he worked as an on-air reporter for Channel Four News -- the UK equivalent of Nightline -- where he covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia and numerous political stories in Europe and the US.  P.G.'s book Fire Mountain - How One Man Survived the World's Worst Volcanic Disaster (Bloomsbury UK/US) was made into a drama documentary by Nat Geo.

Other current producing projects include a documentary adaptation of Mark Harris's "Pictures at a Revolution -- Five Films and the Birth of the New Hollywood" and the follow up to "Wanted and Desired." He is also writing a feature script, "Dear Norman Mailer," with development funding from the Film Agency for Wales. P.G. has a degree in Modern History from Oxford University. He lives in Los Angeles.

IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1557894/


P.G. Morgan’s Favorite Films

Network “Peter Finch as the mad-as-hell anchorman; William Holden and Faye Dunaway as the executives who fight over his soul. Paddy Chayefsky's whip smart script was meant to be an indictment of TV journalism and its reality-TV future. Unfortunately, Lumet's parable had the opposite effect on me. It turned my teenage interest in journalism and film into a clinical obsession. I was smitten.”

Il Divo “Sorrentino's film is the nearest thing to pure cinema I've seen in the past few years and was an inspiration to me through our editing process. The politics may be convoluted to non-European audiences but the visual set pieces, driven by some sublime music choices, remind you of what cinema can do. Afterwards, the world looks and feels different for a while.”

This American Life: John Smith “A TV film which had the emotional pull and visual flair of a theatrical feature. 'John Smith' explores the seven ages of man through seven guys named John Smith. A simple idea, beautifully executed -- which had me in buckets of tears by the end.”