Toby always wanted to be a film-maker. When he was quite a young man he wrote a short script which won a competition to get it made into a film, so he went to Hollywood to get it made. It didn’t get made – Thus, He learned his first lesson about Hollywood. So… he became a PA over there working on some incredible music videos, and then very quickly he became a grip and a bit of a lighting dude on a couple of movies. He couldn’t keep still or maybe it was a visa thing, so he went to film school back in the UK to learn how to direct.
Then he won some awards for his short films at film school. This led to him editing a movie. It won lots of awards, Berlin and others too… He got a bit fed up being stuck in a dark room in Soho so he started directing music videos. He won some more awards for those. Then he started directing commercials. This took him all over the world. He’s won awards for some of those too. He got to work with tons of amazing clients like Cadillac, Coca-Cola, Kodak, Unilever, Pontiac, T-Mobile and L’Oreal (a lot).
Now Toby is developing several movie projects, trying to stop smoking and becoming quite a good cook, but most of the time he gets to work with people he loves in exotic places and makes a lot of interesting new friends.
