Paul Catalanotto is an independent filmmaker, educator, and transmedia creator developing genre-driven storytelling across film, television, comics, prose, and interactive digital platforms. His work explores how narrative ideas emerge in short-form and experimental media and evolve into larger intellectual property across multiple formats, with a focus on what translates effectively between mediums and what does not.
He teaches in the Screen Arts program at Louisiana State University, where he focuses on filmmaking, horror, and emerging media practices. Alongside his academic work, he is an active producer and director working across feature films, documentaries, short films, commercial production, and digital series. His feature-length horror films have secured distribution, and his work has screened internationally and received recognition in both comedy and horror categories. He has also directed music videos aired on GAC and The Country Network and produced award-winning commercial and documentary projects for regional clients, including Tangipahoa and Livingston Parish Tourism, the Camp Moore Museum, and work for local organizations and businesses.
Catalanotto is the creator of Vintage Eight, a genre-focused digital platform with over 113,000 subscribers producing short films, serialized content, and experimental horror. Through the channel, he co-hosts The 100 Scariest Shorts Streaming, a critical series examining contemporary horror shorts from both academic and practitioner perspectives. Select projects within the Vintage Eight universe include The Children Under the House, an exercise in minimalist horror storytelling, and The Williams Tapes, which was invited by the Editor-in-Chief of Dread Central to screen at the Unnamed Footage Festival.
His writing spans comics, short fiction, and essays, with work published in Friction, Stygian Lepus, Omens Magazine, and Creepy Pod. He is currently developing a true crime project being shopped for production. His practice has been recognized across multiple disciplines, including a Christian Country Award (2013), an Atlanta Hip Hop Award (2005), the President’s Award from TARC (2019), and the Kathy Pittman Award from Southeastern Louisiana University (2025), reflecting a multidisciplinary creative career spanning film, media, education, and community engagement.
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