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Jith Paul is an independent filmmaker based in Ottawa, Canada. While pursuing a career as a software engineer, he decided to take a detour to follow his passion for film and filmmaking, establishing Treepot Media in 2010. Over a decade and several successful projects and collaborations later, he operates with a steady footing in both the film and engineering worlds.

Jith's directorial debut, Algebra, a short film about a painter grappling with the loss of his sight, screened at festivals throughout Asia, North America and Europe including the Festival international Entr’2 marches in Cannes, France in 2015. His next directorial effort was an ACTRA union film about a once promising pop singer, who struggles to overcome her debilitating stage fright. The film, A Clean Slate was awarded Best International Short Film at the Valle d'Itria Film Festival in Italy, where it premiered.

Jith edited the documentaries Partners for Peace, an official selection at Victoria Film Festival, North Boys, winner of the Founder’s award at the Yorkton Film Festival, and This is My Witness, which premiered at the Paley Centre in New York and was an Official Selection at the Amnesty International Reel Awareness Human Rights Film Festival.

Polar Bear Love, Moments and Perfect, short films Jith produced, were selected to participate in CBC Television’s Short Film Face-off in 2011, 2012 and 2013 respectively. Jith recently produced Karim Ayari's Before Me / L’homme de la maison, a bilingual narrative film that explores social intolerance and its impact on children. The film has just completed a successful run which included a best film award at the Festival du Court-Métrage d'Auch, in France.

Jith is a seasoned professional in software systems design and architecture, specializing in object-oriented analysis and the development of n-tier web-based component frameworks and J2EE applications. His expertise spans areas such as data persistence, procurement, workflow, and document management.

In 2020, as Team Lead for Digital Development at the Cable Public Affairs Channel in Ottawa, Jith designed a major software re-platforming project, and managed and coordinated the efforts of an international team of software developers and service providers to implement it. The new platform, launched in 2021, enables CPAC to deliver multiple simultaneous live streams, video-on-demand content, and articles across its digital platforms, including the cpac.ca website and CPAC's social media channels.

In 2024, Jith served as the Technical Lead for the Democracy in Action project, which saw the successful migration of over 400 video assets from CPAC’s broadcast coverage of the 2004 and 2006 federal elections to make them publicly accessible through CPAC's website.

Jith holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo and is a graduate of the television broadcasting program at Algonquin College. He was nominated for the Premier's Award (Ontario Colleges) in 2013. He is co-founder and former board member of the Ottawa Canadian Film Festival (OCan), and curator for film613 and Treepot Spark. Jith freelances as a camera operator, editor, stills photographer, and web designer.

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