Dreamtime are a film company based near Ulverston, Cumbria. We produce creative films, documentaries and large scale sensor-based video installations, as well as live multi-camera vision mixing for corporate events, club nights and festivals.
Company Director, Tom Lloyd, has extensive experience of filmmaking and developing interactive film projects for arts organisations, educational institutions, corporate organisations and community projects in the North West including Welfare State International, Creative Partnerships Cumbria, Lanternhouse International, The Ruskin Foundation, Whitewood and Fleming and Blackpool Borough Council.
Tom Lloyd ~ Biog
After a degree in film, Tom worked in Soho as assistant film editor on 35mm commercials. He shot a promo for the band The Orb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RKp-m028fQ then left the city for a life on the road with horses, returning to film through an MSc in Creative Technology at Leeds Metropolitan Universtity, and with a stint as camera assistant at Cosgrove Hall Films, Manchester.
Tom has spent the last seven years working as a video artist and film maker with arts company Welfare State International, and for The Sage Gateshead, Whitewood and Fleming, The Ruskin Foundation, Lancaster University and others on film projects and large scale, sensor-based video installations.
As Creative Associate for Lanternhouse International, Tom directed Supercasino, a 10 minute short for North West Vision and the UK Film Council, selected for Cannes Film Festival Short Corner and runner up at Keswick Film Festival Shorts Competition 2008.
Slave Label which he co-directed for Whitewood and Fleming was screened internationally as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.
In 2007 Tom established Dreamtime Film Ltd, and in 2008 Live Before You Die was shortlisted in the ThinK Sync Film Competition and screened as part of Rushes Film Festival and at the BFI (Upshots, Keswick Film Festival and Cannes Short Corner 2009.
When he is not working, Tom can be found mixing visuals at club nights and festivals, or at home in the Lake District with his wife, daughter and herd of fell ponies.
interview with Tom Lloyd here http://www.gofurness.com/people/interview/ill-do-it-my-way
more here
http://www.gofurness.com/people/interview/catching-tom-lloyd
Comment by Tom Lloyd on Bingethinkers + Scott Burns - "Full Rotation" (Radar Music Video post)