John Tomkins is a Director, Producer, Editor and Director of the English Riviera Film Festival in Devon UK. John's love of the film started after seeing the film The Rocketeer ( 1991), which inspired him to one day wanting to become a film Director. That ambition since 2012 has led to a full time career ( 2015) as an independent film Producer .
John has Directing-Producing ambitious short films, documentaries , adverts and music videos. John has also produced and help market films for other Directors ( including the 2017 feature film Scareycrows).
In 2015 John instigated the first English Riviera Film Festival, which has the grown with the support of the ERFF team into a major international film festival in the South West UK , with an International film award screening and ceremony each year.