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Tumi Jon King

Director
Screenwriter.
South West

About Me:

Biography:

As well as being an award-winning film director, Tumi Jon King is a bestselling author and optioned screenwriter of some 25+ years experience. With a rich background in music, Tumi Jon is also a talented composer/songwriter and music producer.

As a screenwriter Tumi Jon has worked with a mixed bag of producers and talented directors, including Simon Fellows, Kevin Connor, Stuart Baird and Oscar-nominated director, Tim Conrad. He has written screenplays for a number of producers and directors, ghost-written for other writers, and has also produced and/or directed his fair share of high-quality music videos.

More recently Tumi Jon wrote and directed two multi-award-winning short films, 'When I'm Famous' and 'Same Face Different Lens'. He is now fully engaged in sourcing the funds to turn the shorts into feature-length movies.

Watch this space!

My Work and Credits:

Same Face Different Lens (2025)

About: Jack and Ben are twins -- Jack an aid worker in Gaza, Ben a film student in London. Though they share the same Jewish blood, they share widely differing views when it comes to the Middle East. 'Same Face Different Lens' -- one truth, two perspectives, everything on the line...

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Fun stuff:

Films I wish I had made:

I Daniel Blake, This Is England, Once, Trainspotting, A Hard Day's Night.

I cried watching:

Tottenham lose to Arsenal.

I left the cinema during:

The intermission.

Directors I love:

Ken Loach, Alan Parker, Shane Meadows, Mike Leigh

Actors I admire:

Too many to name.

Writers I Respect:

Paul Laverty, John Carney, loads of others.

My desert island discs:

Everything by The Beatles plus one or two more...

My death row meal:

Fish n Chips -- for once I wouldn't need to worry about how unhealthy it was.

The best thing I own:

My glasses ~0-0~