tom boyd-hall

I am an award winning 18 year old film director, writer, editor and obsessive film watcher from Amersham, Buckinghamshire and a passionate storyteller to my core.

In July of 2021, my short film “One-Minute Man” was awarded Film of the Month by IntoFilm, a lottery funded organisation, which ultimately helped me realise that filmmaking was something I was both good at, and adored endlessly. Since then, I have directed a film shot at Pinewood Studios, had multiple productions of mine be selected for various festivals, and directed a film as part of the BFI Film Academy x National Film and Television School Craft Skills Residential, which later screened at the BFI Southbank Cinema. As of recent, I applied for and was accepted to attend a National Film and Television School intensive two-day course focused on directing comedy, and, as of late November, I was awarded a £1000 film grant by the BFI to produce and direct a short film that I had pitched to them as part of the first Short Cut Film Fund scheme. The short film, titled POLLY, screened at the BFI Southbank Cinema on the 27th of February and is currently in the middle of it’s festival circuit.

Alongside filmmaking, I am also an avid writer, having written film reviews for a local publication and, as a result, was chosen by Sony Pictures to attend an invite-only press screening of Father Stu (2022) in London. Additionally, I have completed a vast number of screenplays, such as an 105 page feature script entitled “Baker Street”, following the life of a sociopathic and violent therapist who grows increasingly obsessed with a rich and attractive couple whom he is counselling. I have also tried my hand at writing conventional fiction, having recently written a 7-page short story titled “The Beavers”.