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homas Verdi is a creative director and filmmaker from Philadelphia, PA.

His work has been featured by Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, Film Independent, No Film School, AT&T Shape, and more. His film funding company, The Film Fund, has given away over $80,000 in funding to winning filmmakers. He has produced work for Google, Comcast NBCUniversal, Travis Manion Foundation, Particle Health, and more.

Awards for his film “Son of Blackbeard” can be found on the film’s page here, where you can also watch the full film. He’s currently on the festival circuit with his latest black comedy short film, “The Toms.” You can learn more about the project here.

He works as a creative director at Mnemonic, Comcast’s creative agency, and he used to work in digital marketing. You can view that archived portfolio here.

Verdi received his Master of Engineering in Technical Entrepreneurship from Lehigh University, where he also received his Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration in creative writing and minors in film studies and entrepreneurship.

Verdi believes that if a film or piece of creative resonates with its viewers emotionally in any way, that represents something important. He has been influenced by the work of David Lynch, Sofia Coppola, the Coen Brothers, Martin McDonagh, Darren Aronofsky, Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Kevin Smith.