John Paget is an independent filmmaker, television producer and DVD publisher, originally from Olympia, Washington and now based in Western New York.
His first documentary, Route 66: An American Odyssey, won five international film festival awards and was broadcast as a multi-episode series on PBS stations nationwide in 2000. The film helped spark a national movement to save America's historic highways and highway architecture.
In 1999, Paget formed an independent production company, Blue Suede Films, and produced Almost Elvis: Elvis Impersonators & Their Quest for the Crown. Almost Elvis was completed in 2001, achieved distribution through Seventh Art Releasing and has been nationally televised on TRIO-TV, The Documentary Channel, and Ovation Network (current show times). A fascinating exploration of a unique cultural phenomenon, the documentary has been an official selection to twelve film festivals and won several awards. It's been a featured screening for curated exhibitions at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame, Seattle's Experience Music Project and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan.
As a freelance shooter/director, Paget has traveled extensively to shoot projects on-location in Belize, Cuba, China, Dominican Republic, New Zealand, Russia, Samoa, Thailand and South Africa. He has worked as a shooter for MTV's Real World/Road Rules reality show, and as a producer/editor for several episodes of Microsoft Corp's online technology TV show (Channel 10), and as supervising editor for a BTV 20-part television series in Beijing, China.
Paget graduated magna cum laude from Biola Univeristy (BA English 1992), where he co-produced/directed a student film project Saints of the Revolution, a historical documentary about the church in Castro's Cuba.
In additon to producing television and feature documentaries, Paget has directed national TV spots for numerous ad agencies, created websites, designed/authored internationally released DVD titles, and produced commissioned documentaries for several state government agencies.
Benefit screenings of Paget's films have raised thousands of dollars for charities such as Make-A-Wish Foundation, Boys & Girls Club, Crisis Clinic, The Olympia Film Society and more. His Route 66 films aired as pledge programs for many PBS affiliates. Paget Films was a supporting sponsor of the Foundation for our Future's National Conservation Learning Summit.
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