Directing
Toni Hipwell
EN cinema · 11 credits
Also known as Tony Hipwell
Toni is a multi-award-winning trans filmmaker whose work has screened at Academy Award, Canadian Screen Award, BAFTA and BIFA qualifying festivals. Their debut feature, Whoops! premiered at Raindance 2013 as a Top 10 Pick and was the only British film selected for the Raindance Tour 2014. Since then, Tony has developed projects with the BBC and Searchlight Pictures, worked as the Video Producer for Young Thug Records in association with EMI Records and been selected for the inaugural Future of Film and IHS X FEAR incubators. Toni's most recent projects include the award-winning adaptation of 'Standing Woman' by internationally acclaimed author Yasutaka Tsutsui which was nominated for the Yorkshire Film Award at Leeds International Film Festival 2021 and has since been acquired by ALTER. Their new short, 'The Lure' was nominated for a Méliès D’Argent and is touring festivals around the world now with sponsorship from CenterFrame.
Known for
Filmography
Body Worn Video
Writer, Director
The Lure
Writer, Producer, Director
How to Kill Monsters
Assistant Director
Zomblogalypse
as Tony, Writer, Director
Bad Penny
Producer, Writer, Director
Standing Woman
Director, Co-Producer
Wrens
Editor, Director, Producer
Skeets
Sound Editor, Producer, Director, Editor
Long Gone
Sound Recordist
Whoops!
Director, Writer
Amber
as Matt