Toby Dye directs bold, genre-defying work for some of the worldās biggest brands, bands, and platforms. Heās made some crap too, but this really isnāt the place to go into that.
Over a twenty-year career, heās picked up more than forty major international awards across film, TV, and online, which suggests he knows what heās doing (most of the time).
He started in documentary with Channel 4 and the BBC, drawn to stories on the fringes of the law and polite society. His film Bodysnatchers of New York won the prestigious Grierson Award, which is a very big deal if youāre into documentaries (and he is).
Tobyās work tends to push documentary into places it probably shouldnāt go ā from the D&AD-winning Paradise Circusfor Massive Attack to Heinekenās Worlds Apart, a global social experiment on political division that pulled in 50+ million views and sparked debates everywhere from The Washington Post to Good Morning America.
His approach to drama is equally questionable. For Phobos, created with Ridley Scott, he put an A-list cast through real āfear tests,ā essentially stressing them out for the sake of art, then building the film from whatever happened next.
More recently, heās moved into large-scale installation work, including Instability for UNKLE and The Corridor, described as āmind-boggling, funny, and mildly disturbingā ā which feels about right.
Toby lives in London in a state of constant, good-natured frustration.