Paula Tiberius

Paula Tiberius is a screenwriter and director with twenty plus years of experience. Her film and television screenplays have been featured on Netflix, Amazon, Peacock, CBC, UPtv, INSP and more. Her camp thriller for Lifetime Television, Hunting Housewives, starring Denise Richards, airs Spring 2024 and production just wrapped on her script for the third installment of Hallmark’s The Jane Mysteries, starring Jodie Sweetin. Paula co-directed the TV romance Christmas Time Capsule for UPtv’s 2023 holiday season, and her screenplay Snowbound for Christmas was the #4 Netflix movie in December 2021. She was a lead writer on the one-hour drama The Wedding Planners and her award-winning feature film Goldirocks (2004) was released theatrically in Canada.

Paula holds an Honors Bachelor of Arts, Cinema Specialist degree from the University of Toronto and studied feature film and television screenwriting at George Brown College. As an editor and writing coach, she’s been working one on one with clients since 2014 on screenplays, fiction and nonfiction. Her teaching philosophy is that storytelling thrives with clarity of structure even if you’re breaking the ‘rules’, and that complex characters spawn the most meaningful stakes.

Raised by two artist scholars, Paula was taught from a young age to question authority, value craft and live with purpose. She fell in love with punk rock and the Detroit rock sound in high school, an aesthetic that grounds her ‘be who you are’ philosophy and fuels her passion for supporting the underdog. Paula learned to make films at the University of Toronto’s Hart House Film Board and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) where she edited her first three short films (Busk, Killing Time & Oxanna) on an Intercine flatbed machine the old school way - cutting film strips and taping them back together.

Paula writes and records music with her husband Richard Duguay at their home studio in Los Angeles, and recently directed a 9-part music video campaign for his album Bad JuJu (2019) Paula’s children’s album Be Who You Are (2015) encourages young people to make art and question everything.