Tanel Toom
Film director
1982 –
Who is Tanel Toom?
Tanel Toom is an Estonian Oscar nominated director and screenwriter.
Tanel Toom studied filmmaking at the 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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- Born
- Nov 1, 1982
Tallinn - Nationality
- Estonia
- Profession
- Education
- National Film and Television School
- Tallinn University
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on July 23, 2013
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