Tom Rowsell
- Director
- Editor
- Producer
Tom Rowsell is an historian and an independent film maker, director and editor, known for From Runes to Ruins (2014) and his YouTube channel Survive the Jive which includes documentary films about pagan religion and ancient European cultures.
He began making films aged 15, with a mini DV camera and went on to study film and media at the University of Brighton. At University Rowsell produced a music video for a local band which was praised on BBC Radio 1 by DJ Mike Davies in 2007. Rowsell's first project after graduation was an unreleased drama entitled Fags, starring William Sellers, the grandson of Peter Sellers. This project was abandoned due to problems during post-production. Rowsell went to Venezuela in 2008 to create Boobs and Revolution (2010), a documentary about socialism and breast surgery under President Hugo Chavez.
in 2012 Rowsell received an MA in Medieval history from University College London. He subsequently wrote, directed and presented the full length documentary film, From Runes to Ruins (2014) which was about Anglo-Saxon history and its contribution to modern British identity. Most of Rowsell's subsequent work has consisted of short YouTube documentaries on various historical subjects.
He began making films aged 15, with a mini DV camera and went on to study film and media at the University of Brighton. At University Rowsell produced a music video for a local band which was praised on BBC Radio 1 by DJ Mike Davies in 2007. Rowsell's first project after graduation was an unreleased drama entitled Fags, starring William Sellers, the grandson of Peter Sellers. This project was abandoned due to problems during post-production. Rowsell went to Venezuela in 2008 to create Boobs and Revolution (2010), a documentary about socialism and breast surgery under President Hugo Chavez.
in 2012 Rowsell received an MA in Medieval history from University College London. He subsequently wrote, directed and presented the full length documentary film, From Runes to Ruins (2014) which was about Anglo-Saxon history and its contribution to modern British identity. Most of Rowsell's subsequent work has consisted of short YouTube documentaries on various historical subjects.