Paul Thomas trained as an architect before moving into a career in television. As a producer-director he has worked in-house at BBC Entertainment and several leading UK production companies. His work includes creating innovative entertainment & comedy series for the BBC, Channel 4 and SKY, and two years as series director for Channel 4′s flagship animation season.

After training as an architect, Paul worked in live TV before moving to the BBC Comedy dept–working with Sacha Baron Cohen, Katherine Tate, Leigh Francis, and then moving via factual entertainment into longer form factual work. Paul produce & directed AMERICAN: The Bill Hicks Story, with Matt Harlock, and the film became the UK's 2nd highest grossing theatrical documentary in 2010 and won best documentary awards at Dallas Film Festival, LA Film Festival, Little Rock and Bologna Biografilm. The film was also Grierson & Cinema Eye nominated in 2011.

Previous work includes Shadows of Sofia 2018, Prince William Uncovered 2003, Big Brother's Little Wedding 2003, Series Director–C4 Animation Season, 2000, 2001. The Architecture Show, Discovery 2000.

Shortly after the war broke out in Ukraine, the architect Norman Foster announced that an international team of architects would help rebuild Ukraine, and my first thought was, 'But what about Ukraine's own architects? Who are they? And what will their place be in this?'

So I began to research, and I quickly found an impressive & diverse profession of smart-thinking modern creatives, pulling off astounding and beautiful modern projects on what I knew would be far smaller budgets than in the West. Several of these architects were already hard at work on ideas for reconstruction projects and so I began to contact them and travelled to Kyiv in July 2022 to do the first interviews.

I had also previously worked for 2 years on a feature documentary in Bulgaria, uncovering corruption within the Bulgarian Government (Shadows of Sofia - on Amazon) and so I was also familiar with Russia's manipulative grip on the former soviet states and had a strong sense of the issues beneath the surface that Ukraine would be dealing with.

I then returned to Ukraine in Nov 22 and throughout 2023 to film progress with the architects.

My producer friend Steve Cole had also filmed in Kyiv in 2012 and has PD'd many arts programmes and was following developments closely when I invited him to come on board as co-producer, in an editorial role and an ever-useful second pair of eyes.