about

Tom Petch is a filmmaker, screenwriter and author.

Tom served with the British Army until 1997 leading small teams gathering Intelligence on the Khmer Rouge in the jungles of Cambodia and persuading the Bosnian Serbs to accept peace.

After leaving the military in 1997, he founded the UK’s leading line production company, Salt Film in 2000. He directed his first short film in 2004, and sold his first feature film script in 2006. His feature debut as director, ‘The Patrol’, won the Raindance Film Festival 2013.

In 2018, he founded film production company, Dark Wave Film. His first work of non-fiction was published in 2022 by W H Allen - Penguin Books.