Turbulence — Paul Burke, writer, director & producer
Worked for
Paul BurkeRTS nominee for Outstanding VFX: Lucy the Human Chimp – first Virtual Production documentary broadcast anywhere in the world
Paul BurkeKodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography: Blue Morning You (short)
Gravity Road Team, Paul Burke as ProducerBest Campaign, Food and Drink category – McCain
Gravity Road Team, Paul Burke as ProducerClio Silver for AR – Minecraft x Crocs
Gravity Road Team, Paul Burke as ProducerCannes Lions shortlist – McCain Regen Fries
Paul BurkeRCA Mentor for AR and Immersive Storytelling
Paul Burke
The best way to contact me is on LinkedInI often work freelance inside an agency or a production. TURBULENCE Ltd is the company I use to pull teams together as an external vendor to deliver a whole project.
LETS TALK ABOUT
I'm an award winning producer director who splits his work across commercial, HETV and social impact projects.
As a producer I work at a senior level, with a decade of experience delivering human centred stories, often with complex technincal briefs behind them.
Technology and process have been prominent in my producing career but it is the people skills that underpin everything.
2025 - 2026 saw a huge swing away from VFX work and I was lucky enough to be running shoots all over the world for an international agency. I was also awarded funding by UKRI to develop 3D scanning software.
I've led teams that had the first Virtual Production documentary broadcast for HBOmax and Channel 4, and pioneered ways of using technology to delver more ethical and accessible shoots.
The black book is full of talented crew as well as everyone you need for VFX and 3D animation — from indie generalists, to Realtime and Virtual Production teams, as well as traditional pipeline VFX artists.
If we’re talking it might be that you need a commercial, a TV or film shoot, a crazy set build, watertight VFX, a view or the latest AI tools, cinematic digital twins, previz, artviz and delivery of a Virtual Production shoot, or traditional pipeline Animation, AR, VR, VFX, or everything to do with Unreal Engine and Real Time 3D
Won / nominated
WINNER - BEST FILM, RTS SOUTH WEST
R&D & notable projects
Channel 4 / HBO Max. VP producer and supervisor on the first virtual production in the UK to reach broadcast: final-pixel Unreal environments shot in a custom-built studio for Keo Films. Emmy nominee 2022, RTS winner for Best Director, RTS nomination for Outstanding Creativity in VFX.
Apple TV. Virtual production supervisor: an extensive car-plate shoot across episodes 1, 3 and 4, with the assets supervised end to end.
Disney+. Producer / coordinator for Primary VFX, running asset management on episodes 3 and 6 of the Emmy-nominated series.
Media Cymru R&D, producer / director. Accessible and remote collaboration through virtual production, motion capture and live comp: a test shoot with a crew, cast and producers that was 65% Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent, at Distortion Studios, Bristol.
Media Cymru R&D, producer / director. Multi-camera virtual production for accessible film workflows, shot at Five Fold Studios, Bridgend, with a cast and crew 75% Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent. In post.
Co-author. What a VP stage changes for disabled cast and crew, and what a shoot has to do differently to be open to everyone.
Led the partnerships that founded a virtual production facility in Bristol in 2020, then senior VP producer: technology partners, studios, dozens of volume open days and client test shoots, natural-history and feature-film consultancy.
Producer / director of an annual live interactive theatre tour for young drivers, for the Gloucestershire Road Safety Partnership: eight years, more than 35,000 students.
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