Thomas Laurance
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandThomas Laurance is an award-winning director of documentary and fiction. After studying direction at the Northern Film School in Leeds and screenwriting at FAMU in Prague, his graduation short, 'The Bottle', won Best Film at the 2013 Horizon Film Festival.
He followed up with the deeply personal, vérité documentary, 'William Laurance & Sons Marine Engineers', which featured at Sheffield Doc Fest 2015.
In addition to writing and directing, Thomas has worked as a set and scenery carpenter and a prop maker on films such as Tim Burton's 'Dumbo'. This skill-set proved very useful in the informal refugee camp known as the Calais 'Jungle', where Thomas volunteered for a year in 2016. This experience became the basis of his feature documentary 'On Our Doorstep' which featured at the 2021 Leeds International Film Festival and was given the Martello Award at the 2022 Cinque Ports International Documentary Film Festival.
Tortured Artist [2023]
Some artists just never get a break... until they break themselves!
An aspiring creative struggles with negative self-talk and unfair comparisons with his peers. Can his only fan save him from himself?
It's Art Attack gone very wrong in this crude comedy short.
