Tomas Hassall
Filmmakers portfolio
About
I am an independent filmmaker and graduate of Film Production (BA) from the university of creative arts (Farnham) with a focus on documentary filmmaking and screen writing. I'm a passionate and driven filmmaker, and pride myself on my ability to learn, work and adapt. This space is a place to share my work and keep you all updated. London based.
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Projects
All projects are noncommercial. Please request access to any projects unavailable to view due to festival entry requirement.
Feed. (2022)
Observational documentary
Feed. is a short ten-minute observational documentary following the life cycle of a lamb. On Burton farm, the ethos is if you take care of your flock, they will take care of you in return. In this doc we take a gentle look into the ethical production some of our food goes through, from field to fork, and the journey lambs go through from birth to death.
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Watch Feed. at Docuwest documentary film festival at the Holiday theatre in North Denver at 4pm on the 20/10/2023.
Link to festival - https://denverdocsoc.org/programs/docuwest-fest/#:~:text=DocuWest%20returns%20for%20its%2014th,to%20returning%20to%20the%20fall.
House No.47 (2022)
Short fiction film
House No.47 is a character-based drama that follows Sebastian, a man living alone and isolated by grief.
When new neighbour Polly moves in across the hall the pair, begrudgingly by Sebastian, start a friendship. As their relationship grows they find common ground through music and discover more than meets the eye about each other.
Two screws loose (2021)
Short fiction film
Two screws loose is a short fiction film that draws inspiration from the Lebanon hostage crisis in April of 1986, in which two reporters were held hostage for 4 years. A story that centers around friendship, hardship, and the way the human mind deals with isolation when faced with a hopeless situation.
Love and Light
Short documentary
Love and Light is a short documentary centering around Trisha, a holistic healer and tarot reader, whose life and unique outlook on life we learn about throughout.
My journey so far
My Journey with filmmaking started in 2016. I made a choice to study Media, English, and Psychology at A level for two years, in hopes of learning and progressing skills to help me pursue my passion, screenwriting. During this time I studied a lot of theory which helped me gain a solid base in structure, meaning, and analysis. From there I made the choice to go to film school, in order to gain the real-world skills to start to put together my filmmaking toolbox, which I could bring to any production I was part of.
Over the last three years I have made sure to try every role in the film production process, most of the time starting in the deep end way out of my comfort zone, pushing through the adversity. I've done this to fully understand each role that are part of the process, and bring that knowledge into my specialty interests of screenwriting.
During this time at The University of the Creative Arts, I discovered a passion for documentary filmmaking, an area which I now want to pursue as a career. This passion has lead me to complete my third-year graduation film - Feed. - which is a self-shot observational doc in which I have done every single role, from conception to post-production. Completing this project made me realise that there's still a long road to go before I feel like I can call myself a complete filmmaker, but as my projects increase, so does my toolbox.
Screenwriting examples.
House No.47
House No.47 is a character-based drama that follows Sebastian, a man living alone and isolated by grief.
When new neighbour Polly moves in across the hall the pair, begrudgingly by Sebastian, start a friendship. As their relationship grows they find common ground through music and discover they share more than they first thought.
Two screws loose.
Two screws loose is a short fiction film that draws inspiration from the Lebanon hostage crisis in April of 1986, in which two reporters were held hostage for 4 years. A story that centers around friendship, hardship, and the way the human mind deals with isolation when faced with a hopeless situation.
Office space (BFI Eastside open call comp winner)
A short monologue currently in production. A self examination of life after covid and how it's not only changed the external world around us, but how it's changed the way we view our internal struggles.
Early risers - (BFI Eastside open call comp shortlisted)
A short monologue set in a dystopian factory. One worker has had enough, and lets loose on what he thinks about our future and corporations.