Marcus Anthony Thomas

Marcus started off his media career as the co-creator of a comedy podcast, before pivoting into moving image and completing his first Masters degree in film in 2015. His MA graduation film, BUBZY (2015), won a notable mention award at Let’s All Be Free Festival 2016 in the Documentary category. As a result of a strong portfolio of video content work, Marcus was headhunted by a top 50 production company to become a Video Producer, creating corporate and social media content internationally for Philips, Tesco and British Gas which he did for three years.

His next produced short film NO EXPOSURE (2019), which looks at a young videographer who films low budget music videos in order to fund himself as a carer, showed at the BFI Southbank as a part of the BIFA Accredited SOUL Film Connect and British Urban Film Festival, and led to him being selected to attend the Directing Fiction course at the National Film and Television School where he graduated from in 2021.

All three films he directed at the NFTS have had successful festival journeys, with his horror/thriller short film, THE RETREAT, being an official selection in the New Vision section of the Oscar qualifying Sitges International Film Festival and it was released online via Short of the week and Alter. His NFTS graduation film, CATERPILLAR (Sâu Bướm) (2021), has just finished a near-four-year development journey, beginning when Marcus was selected to attend the B3 Media Talent Lab in 2017 where he was given funding to develop the script. It had it’s world premiere at the 62nd Krakow Film Festival and has now screened at several BAFTA and Oscar Qualifying festivals as it continues its journey on the circuit.

Upon graduating from the National Film and Television school Marcus was selected to be a part of the 2021 cohort of BFI NETWORK’s BAFTA crew and shortly after was chosen to take part in an elite director mentorship scheme with Warner Bros. Discovery, where he shadowed Showrunner Miguel Sapochnik and the episodic directors on Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon for 16 months, finishing in July, 2022. He is now working towards directing high-end television, whilst developing his own slate of feature film and television projects.