John-Paul is the co-founder and director of Distil Immersive, an independent creative technology studio pushing the boundaries of interactive storytelling. With a career spanning two decades, his work sits at the intersection of documentary, art, narrative, design, and digital innovation. Before founding Distil, John-Paul was a digital executive at SBS Television, where he led the network’s first national Digital Creative Lab, dedicated to pioneering new formats for storytelling.

His interactive projects—including The Block: Stories of a Meeting Place, My Grandmother’s Lingo, and Cronulla Riots: The Day That Shocked the Nation—have received critical acclaim, earning Walkley Awards for Multimedia Storytelling and Coverage of Indigenous Affairs, Webby Awards for Interactive Video, Activism, and Animation & Motion Graphics, as well as an SXSW Interactive Award. Distil’s immersive documentary installation, Belongings, has been exhibited at major festivals and galleries across Australia, the UK, Chile, Argentina, and the United States.

A frequent speaker and mentor, John-Paul has shared his insights at SXSW, Sheffield DocFest, DocEdge NZ, DocsBarcelona, iDW Switzerland and Mediamorfosis Chile.