Tom Critch describes himself as a cack-handed Salfordian scribe with ideas way above his station, and wholly unreliable ankles. He is winner of the David Nobbs Memorial Trust competition and winner of Best Comedy at the Portobello Film Festival. Comedy has always been in his blood, which shows you how lackadaisical the NHS can be sometimes.

He’s worked with Rusty Quill, Azhur Saleem and your mum. Shortlisted for Salford’s Most Reliable Paperboy 2002, but beaten by that swine who was most probably sleeping with the judges *shakes fist*, Tom currently has two short films in post-production, one with Digital Saints and one with J Black Films.