Arts Journalist
Email: seymour.thomas1@gmail.com
Tom Seymour is an arts journalist with three years experience working in print and online as a reporter, commissioner and editor. He writes on a week to week basis for publications including Empire, i-D, movieScope and Little White Lies.
Interviews include Idris Elba, Donald Sutherland, Errol Morris, Chow Yun Fat, Chloe Moretz, Andy Garcia, Jason Isaacs, Simon Beaufoy, Edgar Wright, Richard Ayoade, John Landis, Asif Kapadia, Tim Hetherington, Lawrence Bender, Moby, Alexis Taylor, Harry Benson, Joanna Hogg and Alex Gibney.
Currently contributing to:
Little White Lies, Empire, i-D, movieScope, IdeasTap, The Jewish Chronicle, Lovefilm, Eye for Film.
Full time positions:
Film and Photography Editor – IdeasTap 2011
Junior Editor – Little White Lies film magazine 2010 – 2011
Staff Writer – Church of London creative agency 2010 – 2011
News Reporter/Arts Correspondent – Sheffield Star 2009
Film Experience
Production Assistant – Colin Pons, Studio of the North Films
Marketing Assistant - Sheffield Documentary Film Festival
- Production Assistant – ‘The Arbor,’ by Clio Barnard, due for release in Spring 2010.
- Post-production Assistant – ‘The Magic Hour.’ Released nationwide on Nov 13, 2009.
- Production Assistant – ‘Abyss’ by Knut Asdam. Premier at the Tate Modern, Autumn 2010.
- Production Assistant – ‘Hands Solo,’ funded by the UK Film Council for Disabled Filmmakers.
Education
Newspaper Journalism, Post-Graduate Diploma, Cardiff Journalism School – Sept 2008 – June 2009
Film and Literature, BA Degree, Warwick University – 2/1 with Hons- Sept 2004 – June 2007
