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Toby Kearton is a British award-winning director, born on June 20th, 1997, in Harlow, Essex, UK. As a young child, he had an infinite number of titles available to him. He discovered his passion for filmmaking and storytelling at a young age, making stop motion animation films at the age of 8 using his father's digital camera.
Toby was selected as a member of the BFI Film Academy in 2013 and was employed as an assistant on the film Tulip Fever (2017) at the age of 17. After finishing school at the age of 18, he attended film school in Burbank, California, graduating from The New York Film Academy in 2018 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Toby is best known for his independent short film Dissonance (2018),which premiered at the Court Métrage at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2018. He is also known for his unique take on historical dramas in the short form with The Dust Child (2018) and The Little Picture (2018),which have won over 20 awards collectively.
Toby has displayed his versatility as a filmmaker, having written and directed character-centric stories with meaningful themes and topics. He has recently completed the documentary short Dick Dangerfield: Defending Drama, addressing the lack of funds in the creative arts, and the pilot episode of the proposed TV series Livin' with the Devil, currently in post-production.
Toby is being mentored by Azhur Saleem as part of the Directors UK Inspire Mentorship Scheme and is developing his feature film directorial debut, Sweet Nothings, set to begin principal photography in 2025.
