Education
Tanel Toom studied filmmaking at the Tallinn University, graduating with a Bachelor in 2005. In 2008 he completed his fourth short film, The Second Coming, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
Tanel Toom studied filmmaking at the Tallinn University, graduating with a Bachelor in 2005. In 2008 he completed his fourth short film, The Second Coming, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
After that, he worked as a director for commercials and as a first assistant director The same year, he decided to continue his studies at the National and Television School in England.
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. He graduated from the NFTS with an Master of Arts 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.