Paul Kimball

Paul Kimball (born January 2, 1967) is a film and television producer, writer and director who resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Biography
Kimball graduated as a University Scholar from Acadia University in 1989 with an Honours degree in history and political science, and then from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University with a J.D. in 1992. From 1992 until 1997 he worked as a musician and producer in Halifax, founding both Tall Poppies and Julia’s Rain. In 1997 he was employed as a special consultant by Halifax-based film production company Salter Street Films. He then served as the Program Administrator for the Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation until May, 1999, after which he founded the Halifax-based film and television production company Redstar Films Limited. Kimball has served as the President of the Nova Scotia Film and Television Producers Association, a member of the Nova Scotia Film Advisory Committee, and is a founding member of the Motion Picture Industry Association of Nova Scotia. He has also worked as a consultant on the film and television industry to the governments of Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Film and television
As a film & television producer / writer / director since 1999, Kimball has created over a dozen documentaries on a wide range of subjects for myriad networks, including Space, Bravo, Vision TV, CBC, TVNZ, SCN, Knowledge Network, EastLink TV, UFO TV, and TrueVisions. These include paranormal-themed films such as Stanton T. Friedman is Real (2002), Fields of Fear (2006), and Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings (2007). In 2008-09, he wrote, directed, produced and hosted the television series Ghost Cases in Canada for EastLink TV. He also wrote, produced and directed two seasons of the television series The Classical Now (2003 - 2005), the classical music documentary Denise Djokic: Seven Days Seven Nights (2003), which featured renowned Canadian cellist Denise Djokic, and the performance film Synchronicity (2008), all for Bravo (Canada). Paul, who famously quipped in 2010 that "monkeys can direct" proved his theory by writing and directing his first feature film, Eternal Kiss released in 2010. Kimball's second feature film, the supernatural thriller Damnation, is slated for release in October, 2013.

Theater
In 2007 Kimball adapted and directed a version of the Peter Weiss play Marat / Sade that theater critic Ron Foley MacDonald called "a fascinating - and strikingly original - take on what can only be described as one of the great artifacts of 1960s anti-theater." Kimball followed Marat / Sade later in the year with the science fiction play Doing Time, which he co-wrote with American author Mac Tonnies. It premiered in November in Halifax, Nova Scotia to positive reviews.

Kimball also directed Doing Time at the 2008 Boulder International Fringe Festival.

Paranormal Research
A number of Kimball's documentaries have dealt with paranormal themes, including the UFO phenomenon, ghosts, and cryptozoology. Since 2005 he has maintained a blog about various paranormal subjects called The Other Side of Truth. His first book, The Other Side of Truth: The Paranormal, The Art of the Imagination, and The Human Condition, was published in October, 2012, by Redstar Books. The book explores the idea that the paranormal is actually a form of performance art created by an advanced non-human intelligence to make us think about who we are, where we have been, and where we are going. Using his own journey of discovery as the backdrop, Kimball puts forward the “other side of truth” – the world not as we have been told it is, but as we are being encouraged to imagine it could become. The Other Side of Truth has garnered a number of positive reviews: author Nick Pope called it "a fascinating and entertaining examination of the paranormal," and historian Aaron John Gulyas wrote that the book "shatters the bland, sterile image of ‘the paranormal’ foisted upon western society over the past thirty years."

Kimball also hosts a podcast called The Other Side of Truth, where he has interviewed a wide range of people primarily about paranormal-themed subjects, including UFO researchers Kevin Randle, Nick Pope, and Stanton Friedman, historian and author Aaron John Gulyas, radio host Micah Hanks, filmmaker Paul Davids, and scientist and consciousness researcher Dean Radin. Kimball has appeared as a guest on numerous radio programs, including Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, Radio Misterioso, and Binnall of America. He is a former co-host of the syndicated radio program The Paracast.

Kimball is the nephew of prominent ufologist Stanton Friedman, but is skeptical of extraterrestrial visitation as an explanation for the UFO phenomenon, and is a vocal critic of the Exopolitics movement, which has generated controversy among believers in the Extraterrestrial hypothesis.

He has been identified as a member of an informal group of friends often referred to by others as the "Paranormal Rat Pack" and "The Cabal"- other members are authors Nick Redfern, Greg Bishop, and the late Mac Tonnies.

Books

 * The Other Side of Truth, October 2012, 250 pages. Halifax: Redstar Books. ISBN 978-0-9916975-0-2

Films

 * Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings
 * Stanton T. Friedman is Real
 * Fields of Fear
 * Do You Believe in Majic
 * Aztec: 1948
 * Denise Djokic: Seven Days Seven Nights
 * Synchronicity
 * The Case of the Baby in the Basement Ghost Cases episode
 * Eternal Kiss

Music

 * Tall Poppies - All Points In Between
 * Julia's Rain - Wonderful Broken Silence

Podcast

 * The Other Side of Truth