Rebekah Tolley
Rebekah Tolley is an award-winning filmmaker, visual and sound artist, curator, and educator. In 2024, she was appointed Producer and Curator of PIVOTAL: Digitalism at the Saatchi Gallery — the first fully digital-art section in the 36-year history of British Art Fair, a milestone that also formally introduced Digitalism as a new art movement. Building on its success, she delivered the expanded second edition, DIGITALISM 2025, further advancing critical conversations on digital aesthetics, collective memory, and the post-digital era.
A graduate of EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs), Rebekah co-founded Tarian Films and co-authored We Went to War (2012), the critically acclaimed documentary created with the late Michael Grigsby, “one of the giants of British documentary filmmaking.” Revisiting Vietnam War veterans, Grigsby first filmed in 1970; the film received major international recognition, including special screenings at MoMA New York, BAFTA Cymru, and ICA London, with a Sheffield DocFest Innovation Award nomination, and UK broadcast on Film4. She also produced Okhwan’s Mission Impossible (2016), an award-winning road movie about one man’s quest for peace between the Koreas, executive produced by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald.
Prior to this, Rebekah served as Executive Producer/Director at Tinopolis (Interactive), collaborating with global institutions including the BBC and the United Nations. Her curatorial and production work has engaged organisations such as BAFTA Los Angeles and their Heritage Archive Project with Hollywood producer Paul Heller (Withnail & I, My Left Foot), and also Pitt Rivers Museum and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
As a visual and sound artist, her work has been exhibited internationally, including Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bongsang Cultural Centre (Seoul), Singapore International Photography Festival, Coventry Biennial, and Every Woman Biennial: London Edition. She has also collaboratively developed socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects, including BBC 3 Slow Radio: Coventry’s Riley Square, and both The World Lived Here: L8 and Today, Tomorrow & Somewhere in Between, commissioned by Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool.
Rebekah is an experienced educator: teaching undergraduate and postgraduate levels in art & design, digital arts, experimental and documentary film, and global cinema. A former lead moderator for cinema and theatre programmes at The MSA October University in Cairo and for BA Fashion Design, Roots Ivy College, Pakistan, since 2018, she has served as a jury member for the British Universities Film & Video Council’s Learning on Screen Awards. She is a council member for the Society of Scottish Artists (the largest artist-led organisation in Scotland, with global membership) and, most recently, has been a mentor for World Fashion Week, hosted on the ROBLOX Platform by VLGE (Paris/New York).
