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Tanel Toom

Tanel Toom

Estonian director and screenwriter (born 1982)

Tanel Toom (born 1 November 1982) is an Estonian director and screenwriter.

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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.[1] 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 [2] won the Student Academy Award for Honorary Foreign Film and got him an Academy Award nomination for Live Action Short Film.[3]

Filmography

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References

  1. [1]
    Tanel Toom goes to Hollywood, Eesti Ekspress, 18. May 2010
  2. [2]
    ABOUT THE DIRECTOR... Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, The Confession homepage, March 3, 2011
  3. [3]
    Toom: Oscarile kandideeriv film valmis vaevaliselt, ERR.ee, 25. Januar 2011
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