I write worlds, and film them.
Winner Best Horror Short film at the London Independent Film Festival 2025.
Young. Ancient. Gender agnostic. Deadly. Olga must replace body parts. And that is dangerous. Frankenstein loved it. Not her. Human parts carry emotions. She hates it. Painful memories trapped inside a teenage boy’s left eye expose a killer, sending Olga on a hunt and painting a target on her back.
Inspired by true events.
In 1972, wanted serial killers Steve the Hammer and Mindi Baker broke into a family home in Minnesota armed with a hammer. Inside, they found a teenager on a wheelchair. This is the footage the police recovered from Mindi's camera.
NORA, short for Noah's Rats, is a message-in-a-bottle style feature documentary.
In 2025, graffiti artists and hackers came together to create a data-Noah's Ark, a dataset programmed to only emerge in a graffiti-whitewashed society. Inspired by the Voyager Golden Disc project, the documentary puts the audience in the shoes of the artists while it explores meaning and reasons why. NORA is a one-of-a-kind found-footage style feature documentary that relies only on footage generated by the artists themselves using a self-report ethnographic technique known as Cultural Probes.
"Real eyes, realize, real lies." - Tupac.
Two sisters discover NORA, a message-in-a-bottle dataset. A forbidden probe that was cleverly left frozen in time. What it hides will forever change their lives and reveal a dark side of the perfectly balanced society they live in. Sacrificial love meets data fascism in a one-of-a-kind, tech-accurate, cautionary tale about the dangers of data bias and the lack of data ownership.
A coming-of-age tale, frozen in time.
Olga is sixteen. She has been sixteen for 865 years. The Girl In-Between (G i B) is a live-action serialised epic blending melancholic horror, supernatural drama, and dark hero catharsis. The story of a bipolar teenage girl that, in pursuit of herself, finds family and growth along the way. The Girl In-Between injects new life into Mary Shelley’s creature in the same way Anne Rice sprinkled a whole bunch of coolness onto Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
When you are flying over time lines, anomalies and glitches are not uncommon, but what Anne saw that day, well, that is definitely uncommon.
A short animated film I've made for fun entirely using Unreal Engine, Maya, and free assets.
Z created, animated and directed three immersive experiences in Manhattan, NYC in 2021 and 2022.
Z Tennyson is a Brazilian award-winning filmmaker living in the UK. His approach to cinematic storytelling is anchored in deep characters and immersive, meticulously crafted worlds. His directorial debut short film - Olga - is a visceral horror-thriller, showcasing his bold visual style and commitment to layered, psychologically rich narratives. Z does the writing, directing, editing, visual effects, and colour for all his films.
