Tori Layne
- Script and Continuity Department
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Originally from Cincinnati, OH, USA Tori has traveled across the country and across the world to work in the film industry. She has helped create dozens of short-form and long-form projects in her blossoming career. Her most recent short film, Under the Hawthorn Tree, has won close to two dozen awards in its journey around the festival circuit, and her feature directorial debut, Imagined, has been released on Amazon Prime. Her upcoming thriller short film, Denehrai, is set to release in summer 2025.
Outside of her work in the United States, Tori has traveled internationally to pursue film, most recently co-directing in Auckland, New Zealand and studying Korean filmmaking in Seoul, South Korea. An entrepreneur and scholar, she completed a masters degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland alongside the growth of her Iron Owl Films brand. Tori finds the process of creating truthful emotional moments fascinating, and strives to be a continual student, not only of filmmaking but of life.
Outside of her work in the United States, Tori has traveled internationally to pursue film, most recently co-directing in Auckland, New Zealand and studying Korean filmmaking in Seoul, South Korea. An entrepreneur and scholar, she completed a masters degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland alongside the growth of her Iron Owl Films brand. Tori finds the process of creating truthful emotional moments fascinating, and strives to be a continual student, not only of filmmaking but of life.
