Tom Harvey

Tom Harvey is Chief Executive of SohoCreate, a London based festival taking place every year in June. The festival explores creativity and champions creative people and their work.

Harvey was born outside Stevenage New Town; his father was sculptor Mark Harvey and his grandfather was author William Fryer Harvey. He attended the Nobel School Stevenage and the London College of Printing, gaining a degree in photography, film and television. He went on to attend Desmond Jones School of Mime in 1982, and worked in the London Dungeon as an exhibit that year.

Prior to SohoCreate, Harvey was Chief Executive of Northern Film & Media, the creative industries development agency for North East England. The company invests in creative people, ideas and companies, working in film, television, web, mobile, games and music.

With North Star Ventures, Harvey helped raise £6m now invested in a range of projects from television dramas like Inspector George Gently, Joe Maddison’s War, United and Vera starring Brenda Blethyn. Northern Film & The fund also invested in feature films like Song For Marion, starring Terence Stamp and Vanessa Redgrave, and The Liability starring Tim Roth and Talulah Riley. Harvey is an Executive Producer on One Night in Turin directed by James Erskine, and feature films Rising Tide, No Place To Hide, Frank, directed by Richard Heslop and Unconditional, directed by Bryn Higgins. The fund’s TV investments have so far reached 80 million viewers across the UK.

Harvey began working in the media industry at David Puttnam's feature film company Enigma Productions, during the post production period of The Killing Fields. He then worked as an Assistant Director, Production Manager and Producer across a range of productions, including US and UK movies, television films and series, documentaries, short films and pop promos, including Happy Mondays and New Order, including their controversial promo Touched by the Hand of God, directed by Kathryn Bigelow.

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