PROFILE

Tom Laws-Brown is a London based Film and Television Editor with over 17 years industry experience, working across television, film, advertising and fashion platforms.

Having graduated from Ravensbourne University in 2009, where he studied Broadcasting and Post-Production, he immediately started work at the machine room in ITV’s London Studios.

A few years later, after cutting his teeth technically with staff roles at ITV and at Al Jazeera English’s programmes department, he decided to embark on a career as Freelance Editor in 2013.

Initially concentrating on short and long-form documentary, Tom expanded his repertoire to work on multiple short films, commercials, music videos and corporate projects. 

Tom's regular roster includes Vice, The Discovery Channel, Al Jazeera English, BBC, RAW TV, CBBC, CBS and Channel 4. Over his many years in the industry he has also worked on shorter form creative projects with Hugo Boss, Google, Jil Sander, Dazed & Confused, Supima and Amiri. 

Tom has worked on a wide array of projects over the years, this has allowed him to go back and forth between the serious and factual, to the artistic and aesthetic. This level of variety has helped develop and diversify his craft. Tom is acutely aware of editorial ideas and is always compelled to tell captivating stories, whilst simultaneously having an exacerbated need for colour, rhythm and feel when crafting something in the edit suite.

Tom’s work has won multiple awards over the years, multiple medals at the New York Festival, a Grierson nomination in 2020 and 2024. The Film ‘The Battle for the BBC’ (Al Jazeera English) won a Foreign Press Association Award for ‘Best Arts and Culture Film’ in 2021.

His film with Vice Media, ‘The Price of Purity’ won two Emmy’s in 2023, in both the ‘Outstanding Video Journalism’ and ‘Best Business Documentary’ categories.

In 2024, another film with Vice Media, ‘Stealing Ukraine’s Children’ won at the Royal Television Society Awards and was then subsequently nominated for a BAFTA.

Tom's editorial style is difficult to pigeonhole as he has worked across, and mastered a broad spectrum of genres and styles. His portfolio demonstrates a versatile collection of work from drama, documentary, advertisements, kids or cinematic installation work.

Tom is an active member of BAFTA, The British Film Editors Association (BFE) and the trade-union BECTU.