Tom is 24, and a director at top music video production company Colonel Blimp. He's made a promo for Diesel where he hid the Diesel clothes under a blanket, and another for Five Alive where the protagonist happily commits suicide half way through. Improbably, all his videos so far have been shown at the BFI's classy music video festival BUG.

Before all this, Tom was a journalist at a national newspaper and a graphic designer at a non-national magazine. And before that, he studied English at Cambridge University, where he wrote and directed lots of comedy with the Cambridge Footlights. One of them got on the front page of The Times, where they decided it was a 'must-have ticket'.

This summer, he's making a feature film.