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Tom Felton’s directorial debut to be on BBC3 in “Tom Felton: Meet the Fanatics”

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According to Broadcast, BBC3 commissioning editor for features, formats and Fresh documentaries Elliot Reed unveiled six new documentaries yesterday, one of which was the project for which Tom has created @feltonsfanatics.

Tom will not only be the front man of the show, but this will also be his directorial debut.

The documentary will be 60-minutes long and is currently entitled Tom Felton: Meet the Fanatics (currently a working title and will possibly change).

BBC3 has released a synopsis of the documentary, which also reveals that Tom will attend Wizard World Tulsa and Comic Con Birmingham (though the latter has not confirmed this on their site).

TOM FELTON: MEET THE FANATICS (W/T)

In November 2014 Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter) will be in the midst of Convention season heading to Tulsa to attend one of the world’s largest film and TV cult festivals Wizard World and on this side of the Atlantic attending Comic Con at Birmingham’s NEC. Every year thousands of super fans come together at these locations – wearing elaborate and intricate costumes – to meet the ‘real’ people behind their favourite shows. For the young men and women who attend it can be a life changing and often overwhelming experience as they meet the stars they’ve idolised for years.

For Tom the convention tour has been part of his life for over a decade, but now as an adult and with some distance from the franchise that made him world famous, Tom wants to take a step back and look at the conventions from the side of the super fan – attempting to understand for the first time why these young people become so attached to these fantastical books, movies and TV series and more importantly by spending time with fans and hearing from his celebrity friends and co-stars ask: when does a fan become a fanatic?

1×60′, director and presenter is Tom Felton. Executive producer: Colleen Flynn and Andrew Palmer from KEO Films. Commissioning editor for the BBC is Elliot Reed.

If you would like to put yourself forward for consideration for the documentary, you can follow @feltonsfanatics and send Tom an email to feltonsfanatics@icloud.com.

We will be sure to keep you updated!

Tom attends the IWC Gala Dinner in honour of the BFI

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As we reported on Twitter yesterday, Tom attended the IWC Gala Dinner that was hosted to honour the opening of the British Film Institute‘s 58th London Film Festival.

NewzcardTF07You can check out what’s on at the festival on the BFI’s London Film Festival page. The festival runs from the 8th – 19th of October, and showcases 248 films in 17 venues.

We now have a lot photos of Tom and Jade at the Gala, which can be seen below.

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NewzcardTF02 NewzcardTF03 NewzcardTF04 NewzcardTF05 NewzcardTF064176684AR 4176746DJ 4176746DXMany thanks to Anicee, IWC Watches, *newzcard, Contact Music and Rex for the photos!

Tom Felton takes the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

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Earlier today, Tom responded to the many challenges he received to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. He posted two videos to his Instagram account, where he challenged Steven Gordon, From the Rough co-star Paul Hodge and Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint to take the challenge as well.

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was created in order to raise funds and awareness for the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association (ALSA). ALS (commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) is a form of Motor Neuron Disease, which is neurodegenerative and ultimately fatal.

You can watch Tom’s videos below.

So far the challenge has raised over $88.5 million to date for the ALSA! You can donate over at the ALSA website. You can also check out Feltbeats.com’s challenge to Tom below!

Feltbeats.com and Charles Baker challenge Tom Felton to the Ice Bucket Challenge

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Over the past couple of days, the Admins for Feltbeats.com have all taken part in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge! Bets, Lori, Sandra and I all doused ourselves in icy cold water to raise awareness, support and money for the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association (ALSA).

And as you can see, we have all nominated our favourite wand-weilding, In-N-Out eating, guitar-strumming Brit to accept the challenge, and today so did Tom’s Murder in the First co-star Charles Baker (also known as Skinny Pete from Breaking Bad).

Tom now officially has 24 hours to complete the challenge and/or donate to the cause.

In his video, Charles says he has nominated Tom because he wants to know, “whether witches really melt in water”. (We don’t have the heart to tell him Tom’s new film Ghosts of the Pacific features water preeeeetty prominently… haha!)

Lori has nominated the entire Feltforce, and Sandra has also nominated Tom’s Harry Potter co-star Matthew Lewis to accept the challenge.

So far the challenge has raised over $22.9 million dollars for the ALSA! Amazing stuff. You can donate over at the ALSA website.