Tom Levesque
Directing
Biography
Tom is a storyteller based in Auckland, New Zealand. His documentaries, short films and music videos have been featured on VICE, The Guardian and MTV. With a focus on character driven narrative, Tom’s feature-length screenplay’s have been recognized in The Black List’s Top List on three occasions while also being shortlisted in the top 10% of the esteemed Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship. In 2021, Tom’s screenplay THE TELEVANGELIST led to an option with Canadian production company, Minds Eye Entertainment. In 2022, his debut feature film SHUT EYE was selected to premiere at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Known For
In 2030 the world is in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.
The Humanity Bureau
An aspiring novelist on the verge of a publishing breakthrough loses his unconventional muse, a tropical fish, sending him and an unstable fisheries officer on a series of bizarre misadventures in search of the fish rumoured to hold mysterious, almost magical powers.
Notes from a Fish
To cure their insomnia, a social outcast befriends an ASMR streamer where the lines between friendship and obsession become blurred.
Shut Eye
Ellen is a struggling gig-economy worker whose pursuit of becoming an online influencer takes a dark and dangerous turn when she meets Nelson, a volatile and unpredictable criminal. He drags her through a brutal night of violent heists that forces her to confront just how far she’s willing to go — and what she’s capable of when she gets there.