Paul Donatelli is a skilled and experienced video producer, shooter, and editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most recently, he was a producer and editor at Charles Schwab, creating education content and branded documentaries. Before that he was a Senior Video Editor at Al-Jazeera's digital channel, AJ+, where he edited social content and short documentaries, one of which (The Execution Beat) won a Northern California Regional Emmy.
He graduated from Stanford University with an M.F.A. in Documentary Film and Video. While there, he made five short films and collectively, they screened at many film festivals around the country, including the Ashland Independent Film Festival, Aspen ShortsFest, Silverdocs, and the Seattle International Film Festival.
He has a B.A. in Film Production from Loyola Marymount University, and served in Bangladesh as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years where he taught English and produced several documentaries for local development organizations as well as the Peace Corps program. One of these films, entitled Amra: Child Labor in Bangladesh, was shown in several European countries and at a worldwide Peace Corps conference in the Philippines.