Name:
Tommy WoodFilms:
Grilling Bobby HicksBiography:
When he was just 7 years old, Wood went with no expectations to see some new movie called Star Wars – it was a bribe for being good at the dentist. Once that first star destroyer flew overhead, he was never the same. Tommy toyed with video projects through high school and college, but never fully explored his desire to work in film. After years of searching for purpose in the music industry, he found it… on the other side of the lens. Wood played bass for the band Quarter Inch Jack, and it was while directing their first music video that he knew what he was made for.
Inspired by the wave of blockbuster films pioneered by his early heros, George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg, Tommy wrote his first script Pieces of Eight (part of a trilogy, of course). Since then, the script has not only reached the Top 30 of 5000 scripts in the 2006 Academy Awards Nicholls Fellowship, but it also won First Place in four other screenwriting competitions – Hollywood Outreach, Storypros, Best First Page and Award Winning Screenwriters. Tommy is the producer, director and co-writer of the award-winning feature film Grilling Bobby Hicks, is an associate producer on the forth-coming documentary An Inconvenient Tax and is currently in pre-production on a documentary about congenital heart defects.
