Tom Beard
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Tom is an Emmy and BAFTA winning documentary Director who delivers films that weave some of the biggest topics of our time into compelling stories with real emotional heart.
A specialist in marrying authentic, unfolding human narratives with challenging factual content and wrapping it in a bold cinematic vision, his singles, features reach big audiences across platforms from Apple TV+ and Disney, to Red Bull and BBC One.
Tom’s most recent film is the critically acclaimed Disney+ feature doc Finding Michael. This emotional journey to Everest follows well-known British TV star Spencer Matthews as he searches for the body of his brother, who died a few hours after summiting as the youngest Briton, 23 years ago.
With his trademark accessible, human touch, Tom’s films have tackled everything from our global impact on wildlife (The Year Earth Changed - which received an Emmy Honors Award in 2022) and climate change (The Last Ascent and Inside Extinction Rebellion), to the over-medicalisation of children (The Dr Who Gave up Drugs), commercial space travel (The 21st Century Race for Space) and the history of whaling (Britain’s Whale Hunters). He has worked with subjects from Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, to traditional communities in the remotest parts of the world.
Tom is currently Series Directing the premium docuseries Waking the Dead (w/t), recently announced by National Geographic. These layered, present tense films follow the cutting-edge investigative work of the DNA Doe Project as they restore the name and story to human remains that have gone unidentified for decades.
