Thomas Marchese

Thomas Marchese is a graduate of the Film & Television Production program at Humber College. Thomas studied voice-over technique at the, now defunct, National Institute of Broadcasting with late broadcasting legend Jungle Jay Nelson. Thomas has also studied with Sears & Switzer and Tracey Hoyt. Thomas has done professional voice-over work for Captus Press Inc., Toronto Honda and Toronto Kia. Shortly after graduating from Humber, Thomas wrote, co-produced and directed his first short film, Exterior, which screened at the 2004 Quintus: Montreal Italian Film Festival, the 2005 Toronto Festival of Italian Cinema and the 2006 Regent Park Film Festival. He decided to expand on the concept of Exterior and in 2005 wrote, co-produced and directed his second short film, Exterior: Hatred. That film screened at the 2005 Quintus: Montreal Italian Film Festival, the 2006 University of Toronto Film & Video Festival and the 2006 Regent Park Film Festival. Knuckleball, a feature-length screenplay co-written with Dhruv Jani and Kal Benedict, won the WILDsound Summer 2009 Feature Screenplay Contest, and was given a full staged reading by WILDsound in August 2009. A half-hour TV pilot script written by Thomas, titled Stargrove, was featured at the inaugural We Make Movies Canada event in August 2012. Thomas also contributed DVD reviews to the website Compressed Data, and wrote film reviews for WILDsound.