Paula Paizes

Lawyer, Paula Paizes is Australians in Film longest sitting Board member, having co-founded the original organization known as LAAFTA, in May 2001. She is Vice President of Australians in Film and serves as Chairman of the Governance Committee.

Paula has a long career in the entertainment and media industries having practiced in Australia for 8 years as a successful entertainment lawyer with Blake Dawson Waldron, representing many producers, actors, agents, studios and government and private financing entities. In 1996, after two years as in house counsel to Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Co,The Really Useful Co, she settled in Los Angeles, working as a business affairs advisor to many film and media companies and has enjoyed a steady career working in finance, production and distribution of film, TV and other media products. In recent years, Paula has also produced film and TV, and served a two year producing deal for Stratus Films, owned by Mark Gordon and Bob Yari.