Thomas Edward Seymour
- Producer
- Actor
- Director
Tom Seymour is best known for the New York Times-celebrated VHS Massacre documentaries (NBC/Universal Peacock). Across his career, he has earned over 90 independent film awards, including five Telly Awards, a National Board of Review student nomination, and shared Emmy and YouTube Award nominations as part of the Black20 Studios team (net_work). His films have won awards at Canadian Screen Award-qualifying festivals, been nominated at Irish Film & TV Academy Affiliated Festivals (UCIFF) and screened at British Independent Film Award-qualifying festivals such as Spirit of Independence, with major wins at Melbourne Underground, San Francisco IndieFest, Chicago Horror Film Festival, Vancouver Horror Show, Arizona Underground, Tokyo Horror and many more. In 2025 Tom was praised by Dances with Films for his documentary feature "Video Dreams". His movies have screened at top genre film festival as well such as Cine-Excess, Torino Underground, Boston Underground, Northwest Film Fest and NH Docs at Yale University.
Seymour's feature film career began at the tail end of the 1990s 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 earliest digital shorts (Daddy's Little Judge), and even appeared on The Tonight Show as part of the viral short Easter Bunny Hates You. He even popped up on the Last Drive-in in Season 6 as one of the "Glue Dancers"!
Despite mainstream attention, Seymour remains rooted in independent and underground filmmaking. His films have been distributed by NBCUniversal's Peacock TV, Mubi, Netflix DVD, Troma, Screambox, Vinegar Syndrome, Kings of Horror and Cineverse, and have been covered by major outlets including Variety, NPR, The New York Times, Bloody Disgusting, Fangoria, Dread Central, Horror Hound, Dances with Films and so on. With his numerous wins from top underground film festivals and institutions over the decade, Tom has slowly emerged as a top tier underground documentary filmmaker in the U.S.
Seymour's feature film career began at the tail end of the 1990s 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 earliest digital shorts (Daddy's Little Judge), and even appeared on The Tonight Show as part of the viral short Easter Bunny Hates You. He even popped up on the Last Drive-in in Season 6 as one of the "Glue Dancers"!
Despite mainstream attention, Seymour remains rooted in independent and underground filmmaking. His films have been distributed by NBCUniversal's Peacock TV, Mubi, Netflix DVD, Troma, Screambox, Vinegar Syndrome, Kings of Horror and Cineverse, and have been covered by major outlets including Variety, NPR, The New York Times, Bloody Disgusting, Fangoria, Dread Central, Horror Hound, Dances with Films and so on. With his numerous wins from top underground film festivals and institutions over the decade, Tom has slowly emerged as a top tier underground documentary filmmaker in the U.S.
