Biography

Emmy and Grammy nominee Paul Flattery is a producer, writer and occasional director of event specials and award shows and a producer of over 350 music videos. He was born in Liverpool, England and educated at Thetford Grammar (one of England's oldest schools, it traces its origins to AD 631), Wymondham College (the UK's first co-educational boarding school), and the University of Wales (now Bangor University) where he got a degree in Philosophy. He edited the University's Arts and Science magazines as well as the student newspaper "Forecast" which won a national award. After graduating he split his career between British television (BBC, ITN, Thames TV, LWT)and journalism, including writing for the national newspapers and magazines including The Sunday Times, Guardian , Observer, Daily Telegraph, Time Out and Rolling Stone magazine. He also wrote "The Illustrated History of British Pop," which was published in the UK and USA. In 1978, he joined one of the first music video production companies (Jon Roseman Productions International) with Emmy-winning director Bruce Gowers whose critically-acclaimed video of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" jump-started the music video industry overnight. In 1978, Flattery moved to Los Angeles to run the US operations of the company and has been here ever since in various music video and television production partnerships. As well as music videos, he began producing TV concerts, including award-winning ones for Phil Collins, Gloria Estefan, Hall & Oates, Tina Turner and Genesis....and then producing and/or writing TV specials and series including: the historic Daytime Emmy-winning "Live 8" world broadcast, the Emmy-winning 23 hour Live Earth world broadcast and the Emmy-nominated post 9/11 "Concert For New York City." Other awards/event shows include: Kids Choice Awards, Creative Arts Emmys, Daytime Emmys, Critic's Choice Awards (inc. the Super Awards, RealTV Awards and Documentary Awards), A Celebration of Black Cinema, the American Cinematheque Award, Miss America, DIvas, Rock Honors etc... He was on the teams that, separately, created Billboard Music Awards and Teen Choice Awards.