Biography

Tom Seymour is known for the New York Times celebrated VHS Massacre documentaries. Over the course of his career he has won over 50 Independent film awards including five Telly Awards, a National Board of review student nomination and he shares Emmy and YouTube Award nominations with the Black20 Studios team (net_work). Tom's feature film career started at the tale end of the 1990's Independent film movement while he was working at CBS News. He produced and acted in John Krasinski's first feature (A New Wave) directed Aubrey Plaza in one of her first digital shorts (Daddy's Little Judge) and even appeared on the Tonight Show in the Easter Bunny Hates You digital short! While some of his work has recently reached the level of main stream praise, his film career has remained in the independent arena. Tom's films have been distributed everywhere from NBC Universal's Peacock TV, Mubi, Netflix, Troma and Vinegar Syndrome. His films have been covered everywhere from Variety, NPR to the New York Times.