Paul Dalio
Director · Composer
Paul Dalio is an American director and composer best known for writing and directing Touched with Fire, a drama about two poets with bipolar disorder who meet in a psychiatric hospital. Dalio also composed and edited the film, which drew in part on his own experience of living with bipolar disorder. [1]
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Career and work
Dalio studied screenwriting and filmmaking at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where filmmaker Spike Lee became a mentor. Lee later served as an executive producer on Dalio’s feature debut, Touched with Fire. [1]
Dalio wrote, directed, composed the score for, and co-edited Touched with Fire, which premiered at SXSW in 2015 and was released theatrically in 2016. The film stars Katie Holmes and Luke Kirby as two poets with bipolar disorder who meet in a psychiatric hospital. [1]
Dalio is currently developing additional film and television projects through Moonstruck Productions, including the feature film Amphibia and the series Revelation and Shaman. [7]
What has been publicly discussed
“Being bipolar will always inform who I am. I’ll always appreciate the role it plays in my life.”
— Paul Dalio [6]
