Paolo Dy is a Filipino feature film and television commercial director with over two hundred commercials in the Asia-Pacific region, including spots for Air Asia, Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, SC Johnson, Kraft Foods, Aji-no-moto, Monde Nissin, Wyeth, San Miguel, and Pizza Hut, among many others. His work has aired in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea, Australia, and the United States, and he directed the first stereoscopic 3D commercial to air in the Philippines. His directorial work for Ayala Corporation has won several Anvil Awards, Gold Quill Awards of Excellence and finalist citations at the New York Festivals. Paolo’s debut feature film ‘Ignacio de Loyola’, a historical epic about the founder of the Jesuit Order, was shot in Spain, and was the first Filipino film to be screened at the Vatican. It was released theatrically in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Spain, Poland, Australia and Hungary, and has been distributed on DVD in the US, Europe, Africa and South America. The film won Best Picture at the Mirabile Dictu International Film Festival in Rome, the Gran Premio del Publico award at the Festival Internacional de Cine con Valores in Guadalajara, Mexico, and also Best Actor citations at the International Film Festival Manhattan in New York and the Madrimana Film Festival in Madrid, Spain. ‘Ignacio’ won four out of its eight nominations for the Film Academy of the Philippines’ Luna Awards in 2017. Paolo’s first short film ‘Miko’ won First Place in the 2003 Bogen Imaging Short Film Competition in New York, while his second short film ‘QWERTY’ was a finalist in Spike Lee's Babelgum Online Film Festival. In 2010, his third short ‘Creative License’ won Best Film in the U.S. National 24-Hour Filmracing Competition. Paolo was also a delegate to the 2006 Berlinale Talent Campus program of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Listed skills include Film, Creative Writing, Video Production, Film Production, and 14 others.
