TOMAS LEACH | director

Jessica Ennis in the Guardian

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:09:09 +0100

Look! They’ve used a still from the film I just made with Mother London for Powerade Zero in an interview with Jessica Ennis in the Guardian...

Pies, the pies

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:06:46 +0100

I’m making a series of films for McDougalls UpperCrust pies with Mother London.

We are building a cannon to fire pies to France, who, alas, is bereft of pies.

See the films here: www.mirror.co.uk/mcdougalls

Norwegian Prototypes

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:49:28 +0100

I’ve just made 13 Little Scraps of Paper films for a show called Norwegian Prototypes for London Design Festival. You can see them all here.

Ennis!

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:48:04 +0100

Tomorrow I’m grading a commercial I shot with Jessica Ennis recently. Should be great, so I’ll hopefully have it up soon.

She was an absolute pleasure to work with and everyone in the crew fell in love with her a little bit.

Newsite?

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:05:49 +0100

I’m working on a new version of this website. Less pages and so on, more a massive pile of everything that will change more often. It’s here : http://tomasleach.com/wordpress/
Will you take a look and tell me what you think?
tomas [a] tomasleach.com

Thanks

Back British Basketball

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:38:13 +0100

The film I’ve been working on for the British Basketball team is out. See here.
Visit the campaign site and get involved: www.backbritishbasketball.com

Buxton!

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:30:41 +0100

I did a voice over with Adam Buxton today.
He was great. Just perfect for what we’re doing...

Shooting stills

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:27:33 +0100

The Back British Basketball people have put a bunch of stills from the film up at their site...

Check ‘em out!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=25622&id=133322970018221

Basketball and more

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:30:30 +0100

Ah, the pressure of keeping this up to date...
So, I’m directing a film about a campaign to get more people backing British Basketball - see here and view the campaign here...

I’ve done a few more films for the Little Scraps project. Which you can see here. Oh! And subscribe to the podcast please...

And I’m also prepping for some other jobs which I will tell you all about soon. Promise.

Little Scraps - Ben Branagan

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:44:11 +0100

The latest Little Scraps is out, after some re-shuffling whilst I did some other projects.
It’s with the marvelous Ben Branagan and you can see it here.
And you can see the whole series here.

And, please, sign up to the podcast. It’s free!
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-scraps-of-paper/id359853572

Magic TV

Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:45:46 +0100

Ha! Finally, the first bit of proof that I have been actually doing stuff.
Here’s a promo that I co-directed with Cassiano Prado for Magic TV.

Dancing and colour and who knows what else. Blimey.

Short and so on

Fri, 21 May 2010 22:12:50 +0100

Hi. I have been up to stuff. Honest.

I’ve just wrapped on a short film, which we shot in St Pancras Cemetery in North London. It was great fun, so I hope the film matches that...

I’ve also just finished a promo for Magic TV, which I co-directed with the wonderful Cassiano Prado at Agile Films...

And next week, another shoot, but this time for someone else. Which I’ll tell you about then.

See? Loads.

Polish

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:42:49 +0100

Happy Easter one and all.

I’ve just come back from a shoot in South America, then an edit in Poland.
It’s a commercial job for Saatchi Poland and through Agent Zoo. I think it’s going to be a good one, so I’ll post it here as soon as it’s done... There’s a bit of post work still, so bear with me.
In the meantime, enjoy a photo of me gesticulating.
And shouting.

Rebecca Miller

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:50:27 +0000

The third film in my series Little Scraps of Paper is up
http://littlescrapsofpaper.posterous.com/

This one is about Rebecca Miller

The project is a series of films about how creative people develop ideas and thoughts and what they keep them in.

We’ll be adding to the site as often as we can and we have some great people lined up, so keep an eye on it. You can also follow the site on twitter (@littlescraps)...

Little Scraps of Paper

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:03:26 +0000

I launched my new project this week.
It’s called Little Scraps of Paper and you can find it here;
http://littlescrapsofpaper.posterous.com/

The project is a series of films about how creative people develop ideas and thoughts and what they keep them in.

We’ll be adding to the site as often as we can and we have some great people lined up, so keep an eye on it. You can also follow the site on twitter (@littlescraps)...

A sorry excuse

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:10:44 +0000

Too quiet here, sorry. I really am.
What have I been doing... erm, well a few things...

I wrote a day for the extraordinary project that is the3six5 (my post is here).

I’m working on a series of very short documentaries. As soon as the first ones are up on their own site, I will post a link here. And I’ll post the films too, as they are released.

What else? You know, pitching, working on the Saul Leiter film, developing a few feature ideas. That kind of thing.
And twittering. @tomasleach

You should follow me. I post lots of nice things there.

2010. Just like that.

Thu, 7 Jan 2010 13:49:43 +0000

Happy New Year to you.
I’ve been a bit quiet recently, sorry. I’m working on some long form projects that seem to take up masses of time...
I’ll put some news up here as soon as I am allowed to, until then, enjoy January.

Guardian/KMS

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:52:16 +0000

The piece I’ve just made about King Midas Sound is up at the Guardian site now...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2009/dec/01/king-midas-sound

Creative Review

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:08:34 +0000

My BBC ad is up at the Creative review site at the moment.

BBC WST

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:38:37 +0000

The commercial I shot for the BBC World Service Trust is out now. You can see it here.
What do you reckon?

New site

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:38:18 +0000

Hello. How are you? Are you excited about bonfire night?

As I’ve mentioned here before, I’m working on a documentary that I want to make about Saul Leiter. I’ve made a site now, where I can post all the inspirations and so on that help make the film... you can see it here. Go on.

NYC

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:52:41 +0100

Wassup.
I’m in New York, meeting people for a documentary I would like to do about Saul Leiter.
He’s an incredibly inspiring photographer, so I hope we’ll get the film made in the coming months...

Quiet

Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:12:42 +0100

Hello. Sorry to have been so quiet...
I’m researching a documentary that I have wanted to do for a little while. So that means lots of reading and the British Library. And so on.

I’m going to go and work on this film next week. Then I will come back and post some pics from it...
Ok?

Balloons

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:03:22 +0100

They’re using a photo of mine for Make History, the Lee website/campaign
It’s this one, called Mr Balloons.

Win!

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:05:33 +0100

The work I directed for BMW Motorrad with 180 Amsterdam has just won an award. Nice.
http://www.180aroundtheworld.com/2177/bmw-motorrad-and-180-win-award/

Review

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:27:16 +0100

The PTT video I directed is featured on the Creative Review site at the moment. See if you can write a more interesting or insightful comment than the one there is now...

Re-animania

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:24:57 +0100

Actually, it took a couple of days to sort mastering the Pull Tiger Tail video, so it’s only up on the site in it’s full, graded glory now... Sorry about that.
See it here on my site, or here on Vimeo