Paula Fouce is a world-renowned producer and director with remarkable works in her repertoire. She has produced and directed No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank’s Story, which screened at the United Nations on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. She produced and co-directed Song of the Dunes and directed and produced Not in God’s Name: In Search of Tolerance with the Dalai Lama. Paula directed and produced Naked In Ashes, on India’s yogis; and produced and directed Origins of Yoga: Quest for the Spiritual. She authored the book, Not in God’s Name: Making Sense of Religious Conflict and co-authored Shiva.
Paula was Vice President and Director of KRCA, a TV station in Los Angeles. She is President of Paradise Filmworks International, and was Co-Chair of the Southern Asian Art Council at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Paula grew up in her family’s historic theaters in Los Angeles. Pioneers of Spanish language entertainment in the US, her grandfather, and father, were two of the founders of Spanish International Network, now known as Univision. She studied in Nepal through Pitzer College, Claremont, then worked in the Himalayas and South Asia. Paradise Filmworks International’s latest work is The Dark Hobby, a documentary about reef degradation and the extinction of marine species from the aquarium trade.