tom boyd-hall

I'm a 19-year-old film director, writer, and editor from Amersham, Buckinghamshire, currently based in Bournemouth. My films blend dark comedy, psychological tension, and sharp, often cynical social satire, slipping between the absurd and the unsettling, always orbiting around fractured people in increasingly fractured situations.

In 2021, my short film One-Minute Man was named Film of the Month by IntoFilm, setting off a string of recognitions, collaborations, and screenings across the UK. Since then, I’ve directed a film at Pinewood Studios, created work selected for festivals internationally, and been part of the BFI Film Academy x National Film and Television School Craft Skills Residential, culminating in a screening at the BFI Southbank.

In 2023, I took part in the NFTS’s intensive Directing Comedy course and was later awarded a £1,000 grant by the BFI and Young Film Network to write and direct POLLY, a dark satire on activism, which premiered at the BFI Southbank in early 2024. The film is currently in the middle of its festival run, where it's been nominated for Best UK Student Film, Best Sound, and Best Drama at the BIFA-qualifying Sunrise Film Festival.

I was recently nominated in the “Ones to Watch” category at the 2024 Into Film Awards, highlighting emerging filmmakers who are, in their words, "destined to be the future of the UK screen industry."

I’m now studying Film Production at Arts University Bournemouth, where I’m prepping to direct The Assistants, a bleakly comic thriller set in a secondary school, which I successfully pitched and developed earlier this year.