Paula Chowles

Paula likes complicated stories. The bigger the idea, the more unfamiliar the world, the more she wants to get inside it.

She began her career as an award-winning broadcast journalist in South Africa, reporting on politics, public health, social justice, and breaking news. The newsroom taught her to get up to speed fast, earn trust, ask hard questions, and find the story in situations where the stakes were real. Since then, her career has taken her to research labs in Zurich, design studios in New York, and 1,400-year-old temples in Japan.

Paula is drawn to people pushing at the edges of what is possible. Scientists, designers, artists, engineers, athletes. People with a point of view and something worth understanding. Her job is to get inside their world and find the strongest story.

Her work as a director spans documentary, branded film, and series for Nike, Lyft, Sony, Seiko, and others, including AICP-shortlisted work for Seiko and a three-part documentary series for Sony AI that was an Official Selection of Tribeca X 2023. As a producer, she received a Webby Award for Best Fiction Podcast and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2019 for Abstract: The Art of Design.

Paula is also the executive producer and founder of Never Not Productions, built around a simple promise: real stories build brand trust.