Paul Clarke is one of Australia’s most celebrated creators of music and social history documentaries. Co-writer and executive producer of the AACTA and TV Week Logie Award winning documentary feature John Farnham: Finding the Voice which smashed Australian box office records in 2023, Paul’s most recent feature documentary is the celebrated Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line which opened the 2024 Sydney Film Festival, before its nationwide theatrical release.
With his first feature documentary Mother of Rock: Lillian Roxon selected for Toronto, New York and Rome International Film Festivals, previously Paul was an originator of the much-lauded live music series Recovery (ABC TV 1996-2000), the hit documentary series on Australian rock Long Way to The Top (2001), and the Long Way to The Top national concert tour (2002).
He was creator and the original executive producer and writer of the award-winning Spicks and Specks (2005), which is so named because it is the only song he can play on the piano. He was writer and director of the award-winning Bombora - The Story of Australian Surfing documentary series and wrote and directed Whitlam: The Power & The Passion (2013), as well as Brilliant Creatures: Robert Hughes, Germaine Greer, Clive James, and Barry Humphries (2015) for the BBC. Clarke was the writer and director of Blood & Thunder: The Story of Alberts (2016, ABC/BBC4) and has produced multi-camera live concert tour shows for Metallica, AC/DC, Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams.