Jonty Toosey

Jonty Toosey began his directing career in television making promos for BBC and MTV. He has since mostly worked in advertising the past 15years. In his advertising work Jonty has a fondness for real-life storytelling. His cinematic reality style has allowed him to work with leading global brands. He is a Cannes Lions keynote speaker, and his work has won him over 30 international advertising awards including Cannes Lions for his Nike + and Molson Beer campaigns. He has been making short films throughout his career exploring themes of love, obsession, selfishness, absurdity . His latest short Sangam, an experimental narrative drama about death and what could occur beyond, has won best experimental film at Feel The Reel film festival and Berlin Film Awards. He recently completed a new short film called Root, a story of acceptance starring Flemish actor Sam Louwyck. Jonty is plotting his first feature length story.