Rebekah Tolley-Georgiou is an award winning filmmaker, visual & sound artist & educator. A graduate of EAVE (European Audio-Visual Entrepreneurs), and owner of Tarian Films, she is the creative producer and co-author of the critically acclaimed feature documentary We Went to War (2012), a collaboration with the late Michael Grigsby, "...one of the giants of British documentary filmmaking” (BFI), which revisits a group of Vietnam War veterans, Grigsby first filmed in 1970. Amongst numerous international film festivals and award nominations, the film was screened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, ICA London, with a UK TV premiere on Film4, and was nominated for Sheffield DocFest’s Innovation Award. Tolley-Georgiou is a creative producer for award-winning Okhwan’s Mission Impossible (2016), a bicycle road movie about one man’s pursuit of peace and a united Korea, executive produced by Kevin Macdonald (Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland, The Mauritanian). She is formerly Head of Media Production & Executive Producer (2005-2010) for Tinopolis, an international TV production group, working with the BBC and United Nations (amongst others). Independently she has worked on projects for BAFTA Los Angeles (Heritage Archive project), BAFTA UK, and Oxford University/Pitt Rivers Museum. Her photographic work has been featured in The Guardian, Observer Magazine and Radio Times. In 2021, she was the first digital artist to be awarded a residency at Marchmont Creative Spaces, in association with Borders Art Fair. Her sound, moving image and visual art work has been exhibited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bonsang Cultural Centre, South Korea (2017), Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art (2017, 2019, 2021), KUMA Gallery, South Korea (2018), Singapore International Photography Festival (2018), and Every Woman Biennial (London 2021), amongst others. During 2023, her visual artwork was featured at Borders, Glasgow and Aberdeen Art Fairs.

Rebekah has also worked in partnership with Darryl Georgiou, as artist duo, Georgiou & Tolley, devising interdisciplinary (or anti-disciplinary) collaborative and socially engaged projects in galleries, the public realm and broadcast media (including BBC Slow Radio: Coventry’s Riley Square); projects which often explore the tension between truth and fiction, history and memory, questioning the way that we map and classify the world in order to understand it.

As an educator, Rebekah has worked for a number of years as a Postgraduate and Undergraduate tutor in Art & Design, Contemporary Arts Practice, Experimental Film, Documentary Film and Global Cinema Narratives. She is a former tutor in film direction and editing at Abingdon Film Unit (AFU), founded in 2003 by Michael Grigsby. She is a former lead moderator for Cinema and Theatre Undergraduate courses at MSA October University for Modern Sciences and Arts, Cairo, and BA Fashion Design (Critical and Creative Contexts), for Roots Ivy International College, Pakistan. Since 2018 she has been on the jury panel for the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), Learning on Screen Awards.

In November 2023, in collaboration with artist, Gill Walton, Rebekah was awarded the Society of Scottish Artists, Past Presidents Prize 2023, at the SSA 125th Annual Exhibition, for their mixed media work, ‘In Sotto Voce’.

In January 2024, Rebekah became an Amazon best-selling author for her contribution to the publication, Activate Your Life Vol IV. Her chapter, ‘On the Nature of Creativity: Expanding the Language of Playful Connections’, explores the role that intuition often plays in the art of connection and innovation. Whether weaving disparate threads, breaking boundaries, or embracing unconventional pairings - where imagination meets instinct.