Tanel Toom (born 1 November 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.
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.
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