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Tobias

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About Me

Working on a feature-length comedy at present - workshopping for the next few months and, after pulling together a story with the actors, we shoot from April. Have another couple of feature scripts ('Beautiful' and 'Yacht') that have been in development for 4 years and 2 years respectively. Both thrillers - 'Beautiful' is a tight little story set on the coast, with a subtle Manga design. 'Yacht' is, well, set on a yacht for the most part. More of a psychological thriller. My one and only completed feature is in the hands of ITN Distribution - pitching next at Cannes '07 for some (small) distribution deals.Dayjob wise I'm currently at Videojug directing light-hearted shorts with a tutorial edge: anything from 'how to give a homie handshake' through several love and relationship titles to films on British sign language. So far, so good.
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My Interests

Film-making, travelling, reading, cinema, theatre, some museums, skiing, playing piano... would like to: scuba dive, do more travelling,.. width="425" height="350" ..

I'd like to meet:

To the left is Millenia - a stylised music promo made for Hotel de Ville. The film beneath one of the many made for Videojug. Below that is a short film made for the 48 hour film challenge 2006. On the right side of the page are, at the top, my showreel (last updated '06). How to seduce your boss under that. Leave comments - if you have any - enjoy the films!
VideoJug : How To Seduce Your Boss

Music:

Mostly into alternative / indie music; The Beta Band, Gorillaz, Eels, Radiohead, Death in Vegas, Muse, Scissor Sisters, Cranes etc. Also enjoy some 60s and 70s, Beatles, Status Quo, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin etc.. .. .."http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash /swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="400" height="345" align="middle" ..
VideoJug : How to give a great homie handshakeDark Vengeance

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Movies:

Whale Rider, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Fargo, Battle Royale, The Eye, Momento, Being John Malcovich, Gladiator, Donnie Darko, Cube, Lord of the Rings, Jaws, The Man who Wasn't There, Spirited Away, Pitch Black, Dr Strangelove, The Shining, Alien and loads more - just love films. Fav directors: Hayao Miyazaki, Spike Jonze, Stanely Kubrick, Coen brothers, Ang Lee, Ridely Scott and some hit and miss directors: Richard kelly (S Tales very bad, DD very good), Ron Howard, Robert Rodriguez, Scorcese, Orsen Welles, Kurosawa, Micheal Mann.

Television:

24, The West Wing, Lost... some BBC news just to keep updated, odds and sods comedies, Futurama, Family Guy, Simpsons, some X-files (got a bit dull after a while), Might Bosch, Darkplace...

Books:

Time Traveller's Wife, Hobbit, Historian, Robert Goddard's, do enjoy the odd Harry Potter or John Grisham too sometimes, The Outsider, Sophie's World (a great one back as teenager), Bourne Identity, I don't read enough.

Heroes:

No-one's perfect...

My Blog

The feature-length comedy - update

It's been almost three months of workshopping now... We've lost a couple of actors, gained a couple, have three distinct stories and 12 distinct characters. Next step is getting some final rehearsals ...
Posted by Tobias on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:27:00 PST

Untitled comedy - feature film

Just starting workshops for a feature-length comedy. New year, new film. Will try an ensemble film - three stories with three groups of actors. Workshopped, written and eventually shot (come April / M...
Posted by Tobias on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:21:00 PST

48 hour film challenge

A small group of us went for the 48 hour film challenge last weekend - we were given 'Dark Vengeance' as a title and supernatural horror as the genre. 48 hours later we handed in our 3 minute film - s...
Posted by Tobias on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:45:00 PST

How to kill a vampire - and Videojug

I'm currently working for a new site (www.videojug.com) which makes 'how to' films... have directed a few for kids but this week we worked on 'How to kill a vampire'. Fast turnaround, great fun, and i...
Posted by Tobias on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:34:00 PST

Bridge - short film in pre-production

'Bridge' is an almost docu-drama style short about an 80 year old woman finding a way to confront her detached husband. It's a sweet, simple glance into these people's lives.So far the key creatives a...
Posted by Tobias on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:31:00 PST

No Defect

My first music promo - for industrial gothic band Inertia. This single was from their 10th (I think) album, pretty successful in their world. Went with them to a festival in Holland to capture the liv...
Posted by Tobias on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:38:00 PST

Informatica

5mins. DV. This was part of the 24 hour Oddball Challenge 2004. We pulled together a group of 5 people (Maye Choo - actress, Jonty Reason - Actor, Richard Mosley - DoP, Keith Arnold - Gaffer, co-write...
Posted by Tobias on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:33:00 PST

Every Picture trailer

1min 20sec trailer for the feature film, Every Picture. Check it out. The film should be available on DVD fairly shortly, a sales agent / distributor is taking it on. Once the deal's done I'll post mo...
Posted by Tobias on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:27:00 PST

Penterghast

Animation - mixture of 3D and 2D (John Horabin animated and co-wrote the story). It's a very stylised fairy tale-style horror, actually the backstory of the school used in the feature film, Every Pict...
Posted by Tobias on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:23:00 PST

Sweet Sayuri and extra info on showreel and Millenia

This was my first short from 2003. 9 mins. We shot the film on miniDV with minimal crew, shot around Cambridge and Finchingfield, all locations were free; including St Mary's church, the Picturehouse ...
Posted by Tobias on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:16:00 PST