
Paul Burger
Paul is an Emmy award winning producer and director whose 25 year career has spanned everything from feature films, commercials, feature documentaries and documentary series. Most recently he produced Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller for National Geographic. Paul’s work has taken him all over the world, most recently Lebanon, Jordan, The Congo, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Nepal, South Africa, Mali, Kenya and Uganda. He’s currently in post-production on his latest documentary feature about the daring rescue of 3 chimpanzees from war torn Central African Republic, and in development on a scripted feature, as well as multiple unscripted projects with a wide range of world class collaborators.
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Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller nominated for 20 Emmy's for Season 3. We took home 5 awards, including the Emmy for the episode on Black Market Babies.
Trafficked
Responsible for producing 3-4 episodes of the Emmy award winning show per season, seeing each episode from conception to final.
Untitled feature doc
Directed and produced an independently financed feature documentary that follows Anne Olivecrona as she embarks on a daring expedition to rescue 3 chimpanzees from war torn CAR and bring them to Zambia.














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