After an Art Direction degree, Thomas Vernay directed his first short film Dryad, a fantastic tale inspired by pictorial art, and the sound/image relationship. The film is in competition at the SITGES Fantastic Film Festival in 2016. It will be selected in more than 70 festivals and will win more than a dozen prizes.

After directing multi-awarded music videos, he directs his second short film Miss Chazelles, a drama shot in his childhood village. The film questions social and sentimental determinism.