Paul R. Gagne
Weston Woods Studios, Inc.
Norwalk, Connecticut, USA

PAUL R. GAGNE is Weston Woods Studios' most prolific producer/director of films and videos based on children's books. For over twenty-five years he has been collaborating with some of the best-known and most well-respected actors and actresses, composers and children's book authors and illustrators, receiving numerous awards and honors for his work.

He is a seven-time winner of the American Library Association's prestigious Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video, for the films THE MAN WHO WALKED BETWEEN THE TOWERS (2006), THE DOT (2005), GIGGLE, GIGGLE, QUACK (2004), SO YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT? (2003), ANTARCTIC ANTICS (2001), MISS NELSON HAS A FIELD DAY (2000) and OWEN (1996).

Other recent honors include a lifetime achievement tribute at the USA Film Festival's KidFilm Festival in Dallas, TX, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from St. Joseph's College in West Hartford, CT. Paul has written many articles on feature film productions for Cinefantastique magazine and other publications, as well as a book on the career of film director George A. Romero published by Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1987. He lives in West Haven, CT with his wife, Lynn, and their two daughters.