tom boyd-hall

I am an 19 year old film director, writer and editor from Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

In July of 2021, my short film “One-Minute Man” was awarded Film of the Month by IntoFilm, a lottery funded organisation. 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. In 2023, I applied for and was accepted to attend a National Film and Television School intensive two-day course focused on directing comedy, and, in late November, I was awarded a £1000 grant by the BFI and Young Film Network 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, 2024, and is currently in the middle of it’s festival circuit, having recently been nominated for Best UK Student Film, Best Sound and Best Drama at the BIFA-qualifying Sunrise Film Festival.

Recently, I was nominated at the 2024 Into Film Awards in the Ones To Watch category, celebrated as one of four “young people who have already achieved great things and who we [Into Film] believe are destined to be the future of the UK screen industry.”

As of now, I am studying Film Production at Arts University Bournemouth, where I am preparing to direct a film I had successfully pitched titled “The Assistants”.