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Paul Turano was born and raised in Colchester, CT. He Received a B.A. in 1991 from Hampshire College in Amherst MA, an M.F.A. in 1995 from Massacusetts College of Art. He has lived and worked in Boston from 1993 and currently is an Artist-in-Residence at Emerson College in the Visual and Media Arts Department.

Paul Turano has independently produced numerous award-wining experimental films over the last 15+ years. His work has been exhibited nationally and abroad at museums, micro-cinemas, alternative venues, colleges and universities and has been shown at festivals throughout North America including the Black Maria, Ann Arbor, Athens International, Hartford International, FLEX FEST Florida Experimental, and the New England Film and Video festivals. His recent digital video “I Covered My Eyes,” screened this past summer at the Globians World and Culture Documentary Film Festival in Berlin, Germay and in Australia at the Syndey Underground Film Festival. His films have been shown locally in Boston at the Harvard Film Archive, the Coolidge Corner Theater, the Embassy Theater, and the Museum of Fine Arts. He is the recipient of a Media Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a Moving Image Fund Grant from the LEF Foundation.