Toni Hipwell
Directing
Biography
Toni is a multi-award-winning trans filmmaker whose work has screened at Academy Award, Canadian Screen Award, BAFTA and BIFA qualifying festivals. Their debut feature, Whoops! premiered at Raindance 2013 as a Top 10 Pick and was the only British film selected for the Raindance Tour 2014. Since then, Tony has developed projects with the BBC and Searchlight Pictures, worked as the Video Producer for Young Thug Records in association with EMI Records and been selected for the inaugural Future of Film and IHS X FEAR incubators. Toni's most recent projects include the award-winning adaptation of 'Standing Woman' by internationally acclaimed author Yasutaka Tsutsui which was nominated for the Yorkshire Film Award at Leeds International Film Festival 2021 and has since been acquired by ALTER. Their new short, 'The Lure' was nominated for a Méliès D’Argent and is touring festivals around the world now with sponsorship from CenterFrame.
Known For
In a near-future time, the British government has come up with an environmentally friendly program that abolishes prisons. Criminals and undocumented immigrants are chemically transformed into trees and put on public display. A propaganda filmmaker is forced to question his work as he prepares to see his journalist wife be “planted” for crimes against the state. A grim and imaginative cautionary tale by British filmmaker Tony Hipwell, based on the short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui (PAPRIKA, THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME).
Standing Woman
Feature length adaptation of the cult British zom-com web series following the adventures of three inept survivors of a zombie apocalypse through a video blog they maintain to ease the boredom of day to day survival.
Zomblogalypse
Seven years after the Incident, three townspeople are brought in for interrogation by the City. The secret they give up is more terrible than their captors could ever imagine...
Skeets
Sophie and Millie come across a mysterious device that shows them encounters of the past with some disastrous consequences to follow when they begin to believe they can control it...
Long Gone
An antiques dealer is haunted by a cursed object that won't take no for an answer
Bad Penny
Rose Clements - loving mother and wife - is quietly stacking up a body count of accidental murders...
Whoops!
The sole survivor of a blood-drenched massacre must team up with a rag-tag bunch of rookie cops and lawbreakers to defend a police station from an invasion of monsters from another dimension.
How to Kill Monsters
Late at night, a lone fisherman discovers he is not the only one hoping to hook something.
The Lure
An Ice Cream Man is held hostage in his van by an irritable hitman in pursuit of a 99.
Wrens
A child abuse call isn’t the best way to end a day, but for officers Cane and Adel, it's not just their shift that's about to end.
Body Worn Video
Amber, Matt and Sabina's plans to celebrate graduation are thwarted by the arrival of Amber's recently-signed rock star ex Gary and Amber's current squeeze Pete, who's semi-celebrating the publication of his first vampire novel. Add Sabina's hatred of everyone, Matt's crush on Gary's mysterious new girlfriend, Amber's gradual implosion and tons of alcohol, shake vigorously and place bets on whether they'll actually get out of the house. A Dogme-esque improvised comedy.