Person
Tanel Toom
Directing · Born 1982-11-01 · Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Biography
Tanel Toom (born November 1, 1982) is an Estonian director and screenwriter. Toom studied filmmaking at Tallinn University, graduating with a BA in 2005. After that, he worked as a director for commercials and as a first assistant director. In 2008, he completed his fourth short film, The Second Coming, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The apocalyptical war drama has since been screened at numerous film festivals and won several awards, including Best European Short at the Arcipelago International Film Festival. The same year, he decided to continue his studies at the National Film and Television School in England. He graduated from the NFTS with an MA in 2010 and shortly after that his diploma film The Confession won the Student Academy Award for Honorary Foreign Film and got him an Academy Award nomination for Live Action Short Film.
Known for
Firebird
Script Consultant
Last Sentinel
VFX Artist
Truth and Justice
Screenplay
The Second Coming
Writer
Set Point
Second Assistant Director
Fränk
Script Consultant
Georg
Second Assistant Director
Lioness
Script Consultant
Two of Me
Tanel Toom
The Confession
Director
Filmography
- 2025FränkScript Consultant
- 2024Two of MeTanel Toom
- 2024LionessScript Consultant
- 2023Last SentinelVFX Artist
- 2021FirebirdScript Consultant
- 2019Truth and JusticeScreenplay
- 2010The ConfessionDirector
- 2008The Second ComingWriter
- 2007GeorgSecond Assistant Director
- 2006RuudiFirst Assistant Director
- 2004Set PointSecond Assistant Director
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