Directing

Toby MacDonald

Born 1975-08-19 · Lewisham, London, England, UK

Toby MacDonald. Director for film and television. Toby began his career with the BAFTA nominated short film Je T'aime John Wayne, which won the European Film Academy Award for Best Short Film, the TCM prize for Best Short at the London International Film Festival, and screened at festivals including Cannes and Berlin.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Old Boys poster
6.6

In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.

Old Boys

2018

Cosmic Safari poster
NR

The search for other life in the Universe begins in our imagination as we travel to undiscovered planets out in deep space.

Cosmic Safari

1999

Cinema16: British Short Films poster
5.2

This critically acclaimed DVD contains 16 of the best classic and award winning British short films and delivers a snapshot of British cinema past and present. It includes films from Britain's most exciting new talent alongside early shorts from it's most successful filmmakers' amongst them Chris Nolan (Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins), Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Alien), Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies) and Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours). 01 About a Girl - Brian Percival 02 Boy & Bicycle - Ridley Scott 03 Dear Phone - Peter Greenaway 04 Doodlebug - Christopher Nolan 05 Eight - Stephen Daldry 06 Gasman - Lynne Ramsay 07 Girl Chewing Gum - John Smith 08 Home - Morag McKinnon 09 Joyride - Jim Gillespie 10 Inside Out - Tom & Charles Guard 11 Je T’aime John Wayne - Toby Macdonald 12 The Sheep Thief - Asif Kapadia 13 The Short & Curlies - Mike Leigh 14 Telling Lies - Simon Ellis 15 UK Images - Martin Parr 16 Who’s My Favourite Girl? - Adrian J. McDowall

Cinema16: British Short Films

2003

Je t'aime John Wayne poster
6.1

Belmonde lives in 1990s London as an iconic , cool Frenchman modelled on the new wave cinema of the 1960s. Really he is English and middle class – a fact that his family won't let him forget!

Je t'aime John Wayne

2000

Heavy Metal Drummer poster
6.8

The story of a 15 year's old Moroccan who is the only heavy metal fan in his town Essaouira. He spends his weekends playing traditional ballads in a wedding band with his two cousins but dreams of playing thrash metal and headlining Monsters of Rock.

Heavy Metal Drummer

2005

Heavy Metal Drummer poster
6.8

The story of a 15 year's old Moroccan who is the only heavy metal fan in his town Essaouira. He spends his weekends playing traditional ballads in a wedding band with his two cousins but dreams of playing thrash metal and headlining Monsters of Rock.

Heavy Metal Drummer

2005