Toni Hipwell

Toni is a multiawardwinning 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 Tonis most recent projects include the awardwinning 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 DArgent and is touring festivals around the world now with sponsorship from CenterFrame