Creator of the 30 time award winning New York Times Celebrated VHS Massacre 1&2 documentaries as seen on Peacock, MUBI, FilmRise, Amazon Prime, iTunes and Google Play and Troma!
Celebrated by the New York Times for his documentaries, Tom Seymour is a tenured senior staff member and former ADJ film professor in CUNY system. He holds an M.F.A. in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College in New York. He started out his career as a CBS News video editor and then went on to work for NBC Universal Digital and Black20 Studios sharing Emmy and YouTube nominations with his team. Tom has directed ten feature length films and produced twenty. His various documentaries on the VHS era have won over twenty awards (including several Telly Awards) and his films have screened everywhere from NBC Universal, Yale University to MUBI and Netflix.
Filmography
Director (4 Credits)
American Expendables: The Films of North American Pictures2024
Documentary, Web / New Media
MacLeod2021
Documentary
VHS Massacre Too2020
Feature
VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media2016
Documentary
53 Awards & Selections
Official Selection - Currently in Competition American Expendables: The Films of North American Pictures
Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions Pinewood Studios
2024
Official Selection - Currently in Competition American Expendables: The Films of North American Pictures
Cine Paris Film Festival Luxembourg
2024
Official Selection - Currently in Competition American Expendables: The Films of North American Pictures
Weekend of Fear Erlangen
2024
WINNER: Best Score Tim Kulig American Expendables: The Films of North American Pictures
Sci-Fi Horror & Action Film Festival Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
2024
One of the first films to screen in a Decentraland Cineplex MacLeod
CineRare Metaverse screening Decentraland
2022
Best Director Nomination VHS Massacre Too
Jean Luc Godard Awards West Bengal
2022
Official Selection: Currently in competition VHS Massacre Too
FIXION Fest FIXION Fest
2022
Official Selection in Competition MacLeod
Jecheon International Music&Film Festival Jongno-gu, Seoul
2021
Official Selection (finalist) MacLeod
Spring Ding Film Festival Metaline Falls, Washington
Creator of the 30 time award winning New York Times Celebrated VHS Massacre 1&2 documentaries as seen on Peacock, MUBI, FilmRise, Amazon Prime, iTunes and Google Play and Troma!