Bruce Parramore

Bruce Parramore (born 1961) is an independent film-maker.

Parramore was born in Geneva. His mother is American and his father is Belgian. He was raised in the Middle East, spending the first fourteen years of his life in Iran and Lebanon.

Parramore has been living in Norway since 1981. He now (2006) lives and works part of the time in [Warsaw} and France where he has set up "Par Amore" with his partner and life companion Basia Borkala.

He started his first company Parramore Pictures in 1987 and worked for the next ten years as a freelancer for the Norwegian film industry and the commercial advertising business, as a storyboard artist and visual conceptualizer .

Under his company, he drew the complete storyboards for 21 Scandinavian feature films.

Bruce became a part time teacher at Westerdals Reklame Skole between 1992 and 1996. He was teaching visual communication and the Art of Film.

In 1994, he was hired as the Chief Visual Artist and Conceptualizer to work, with Stage Director Bentein Baardson and Scenographer Kristian Alsaker, in creating the Opening and Closing Ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games of Lillehammer in 1994. He was engaged for 14 months. The result was 1400 paintings and visual sketches. He than went on working with Beintein Baardson on Ibsen’s "Per Gynt" TV theater, for NRK Norwegian TV. In 2002 they joined again and worked on the 100th anniversery presentation of Ibsen’s Per Gynt, a show to be performed at the Pyramids of Cheops in Egypt.

In the last ten years, Bruce Parramore has been working as a film director with advertising films, music videos, and short films.

As of 2008 he has directed around 300 commercials and won several international awards.

In 2001 worked as a 2nd Unit Director on the feature film, "Aberdeen" by Hans Petter Moland, starring Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgård and Lena Heady.

Bruce Parramore has written and directed three short films.

"Zenith" his most recent short film, produced by Pravda in 2003, was entered in the International Film Festival in Berlin. It won the Grand Prix in Trevignano and has been participating in numerous other film festivals.

Bruce Parramore is Currently (as of 2006) developing two feature films in Oslo Norway and a play in Warsaw.

Par Amore

[http://www.par-amore.com Par Amore] was founded by Basia Borkala and Bruce Parramore in November 2004. Basia Borkala, working as a Senior art Director for DDB Warsaw, hire Bruce Parramore to direct four Ad Films. They fell in love with each other. After numerous commercial films together they decided to join forces and create a company of their own. Both enjoy taking daily small events and turning them into humorous or moving short stories. They spend their time working and developing projects, including short films, imaginary Ad films, dance performance, art events and more. Currently they are directing and producing a short film called "Transfigured Night".

The goal of Par Amore, is to be as creative and innovative as possible, without being pretentious. Eventually they wish to write, direct and produce feature and short films. They intend to keep working with advertising films, bringing imaginative solutions and artistic quality to their work.