Tanel Toom
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 1, 1982
- Birthplace
- Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia]
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.
Filmography
Fränk 2025
Script Consultant, Editorial Consultant
Two of Me 2024
as Tanel Toom
Lioness 2024
Script Consultant
Last Sentinel 2023
VFX Artist, Director
Firebird 2021
Script Consultant
Truth and Justice 2019
Screenplay, Director
The Confession 2010
Director, Writer
The Second Coming 2008
Writer, Editor, Director
Georg 2007
Second Assistant Director
Ruudi 2006
First Assistant Director, Still Photographer
Set Point 2004
Second Assistant Director
Credits from TMDB.