Isaac Asha Tomiczek is a writer, director, and educator working across film, TV, and theatre.
His work fuses crowd-pleasing genre storytelling with emotional depth, social bite, and the lived experience of growing up in Brixton, immersed in creative subcultures.
His obsession with cinema began early. Growing up a few yards from The Ritzy Cinema, Isaac was raised on a steady diet of global film and the collision of cultures on his doorstep, which became constant fuel for his filmmaking ambitions.
Saturdays spent at the Children’s Film Unit (CFU) and college courses followed, but his directing career properly ignited through zero-budget music videos for a school friend, Russo, who later signed to Universal Music.
That early work opened the door to directing for global brands and artists, while building sizeable online views.
Scriptwriting came next, and Isaac quickly developed a knack for high-concept, character-driven stories across genres and mediums. He has written episodes of Spellbound for Hulu, had his script Two Become One selected for The Brit List, and saw his play VAR (Very Audible Racism) named runner-up for a national playwrights’ prize. He currently has original projects in development with companies including Urban Myth Films, Frolic Films, Samsara Filmproduktion, and Tedium Entertainment.
Isaac has been selected for flagship talent development labs, including ZFF Academy, Film London’s PFM and Breaking the Glass Ceiling, BFI Network at LFF, BAFTA Crew, and Series Mania’s UGC Writers Campus. He has been mentored by Yann Demange, following earlier mentorship from Fiona Lamptey at Netflix.
As a director, Isaac has made work for Channel 4’s Random Acts and the BBC’s Sparks, and his short film Taylor won the Emerging Talent Award at The New Renaissance Film Festival.
Alongside his creative practice, Isaac is a passionate teacher and mentor to emerging filmmakers. He lectures at Goldsmiths and Met Film School, and collaborates with organisations supporting under-represented voices in the industry.
A devoted Pixar disciple with tattoos to prove it, Isaac believes cinema should be bold, generous, a little mischievous, and unapologetically audience-focused.
His video for Sam Feldt’s Show Me Love ranked second on a major industry most-viewed list, behind Beyoncé. He is based in South London. His footwear of choice is a fresh pair of Reebok Classics. He remains unconvinced that Glow didn’t deserve a proper finale and will always choose an extra-dry gin martini with an olive.
Here's some stuff he would love to have been in the Director's chair or behind the typewriter for...
Kim Jee-Woon's holy trinity (A Bittersweet Life, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, I Saw the Devil), Die Hard, Strange Days, Attack the Block, La Haine, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Moonlight, The Man from Nowhere, City of God, Aliens, Memories of Murder, Sinners, Parasite, Black Panther, Pulp Fiction, Breathless, 28 Years Later: Bone Temple, Green Room, 40 Acres, Superbad, Creed, Withnail and I, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Do the Right Thing, A Room For Romeo Brass, The Third Man, E.T., Out of Sight, Collateral, Poltergeist, House Party, Dead Presidents, Leon, The Raid, Human Traffic, Sunset Boulevard, 12 Angry Men, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Victoria (2015), From Dusk Till Dawn, The Man Who Would Be King, Amores Perros, Rust and Bone, Mustang (2015), Girlhood, Lion, Sorcerer, The Commitments, School of Rock, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Inception, Climax, Hot Fuzz, Millers Crossing, Sorry To Bother You, The Dark Knight, Love and Basketball, The Incredibles, Heat, Animal Kingdom, Sing Street, Chopper, Boogie Nights, Mad Max 2, Good Time, Blade, Hard Boiled, Midnight Run, The Piano, True Romance, Crimson Tide, Seven, Good Will Hunting, Trainspotting.