Director

Tanel Toom

Directing

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 0All crew credits: 10

TMDB ID: 998343

IMDb ID: nm1823803

Known for: Directing

Born: November 1, 1982

Age: 43

Place of birth: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2004 - 2025

Years active: 22

Average TMDB rating: 6.9

Wikidata: Q2802748

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Second Assistant Director (2)Director (1)First Assistant Director (1)Script Consultant (3)Editor (1)Screenplay (1)VFX Artist (1)

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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.