PROFILE

Tom Laws-Brown is a London-based Film and Television Editor with over 18 years of industry experience.

Tom’s editorial style is difficult to pigeonhole, with a career spanning documentary, advertising, current affairs, children’s content, and cinematic installation work. His wide-ranging experience has allowed him to move fluidly between the serious and factual, and the artistic and aesthetic; a versatility that has defined and refined his craft over the years. He is deeply driven by story, yet equally guided by a strong instinct for colour, pace, rhythm, and emotional tone in the edit suite.

His work has received significant industry recognition, including two Emmy Awards in 2023 for The Price of Purity (Vice Media) in the categories of Outstanding Video Journalism and Best Business Documentary. In 2024, Stealing Ukraine's Children (Vice Media) which he edited, received a Royal Television Society award and went on to receive both a BAFTA and Emmy nomination.

In 2025, the first feature documentary Tom edited with the BBC, The Other War, was awarded Best Current Affairs Documentary at the Broadcast Digital Awards. His earlier work includes multiple New York Festival medals, Grierson nominations in 2020 and 2024, and a Foreign Press Association Award for The Battle for the BBC (Al Jazeera English) in 2021, which won Best Arts and Culture Film.

Tom's regular roster includes Vice, The Discovery Channel, Al Jazeera English, BBC, ITV, RAW TV, CBBC, CBS, Zandland, and Channel 4. He has also delivered standout short-form creative work for clients such as Hugo Boss, Google, Jil Sander, Dazed & Confused, Supima, and Amiri.

He began his freelance editing career in 2013, initially focusing on short and long-form documentaries before branching into short films, commercials, music videos, and corporate work.

Tom started out after graduating from Ravensbourne University in 2009, where he studied Broadcasting and Post-Production. He entered the industry through the machine room at ITV’s London Studios, going on to build solid technical foundations in staff roles at ITV and Al Jazeera English’s programmes department, before making the leap into the freelance world.

He is a proud member of BAFTA, the British Film Editors (BFE), and the trade union BECTU.