TJ Falls

VP, Visual Effects at Disney

TJ Falls is Vice President of Visual Effects at Lucasfilm. Having previously served as the primary VFX Producer on a number of Lucasfilm projects and a VFX Executive on others, he now oversees visual effects production for all of Lucasfilm’s slate of feature films and live action series, while still maintaining a hands-on role producing specific projects.

Working from Lucasfilm’s London studio, TJ produces large-scale and complex shows with a heavy reliance on visual effects. He enjoys the process of finding creative solutions to storytelling challenges, finding a way to make the seemingly impossible a reality through innovation, collaboration, and strategy.

Since joining Lucasfilm in 2016, TJ has been part of the producing team for visual effects on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — films that garnered multiple Academy Award and BAFTA nominations and awards for Best Visual Effects. Most recently Head of Department Visual Effects Producer on the upcoming Andor series, TJ simultaneously served as Lucasfilm VFX Executive on both the soon-to-be-released Willow series and the newest installment of Indiana Jones.

Originally hailing from Los Angeles, TJ studied at UCLA and subsequently spent more than 10 years in the entertainment industry in LA, with time spent in-house at Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot, and on numerous high profile and large-scale feature films. He moved to London to work with Lucasfilm and ILM after partnering with the companies on the first reboot of Star Wars and has been on the journey with them ever since.


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The Walt Disney Company (Disney) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Studio; it also operated under the names the Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before changing its name to The Walt Disney Company in 1986. Early on, the company established itself as a leader in the animation industry, with the creation of the widely popular character Mickey Mouse, who is the company's mascot, and the start of animated films. Together with its subsidiaries, The Walt Disney Company is a diversified worldwide entertainment company with operations in the following business segments: Media Networks; Parks, Experiences and Products; Studio Entertainment; and Direct-to-Consumer & International. In October 2020, the Company announced a strategic reorganization of their media and entertainment businesses to accelerate the growth of their direct-to-consumer strategy. The operations of the Media Networks, Studio Entertainment and DTCI segments were reorganized into four groups: three content groups (Studios, General Entertainment and Sports), which are focused on developing and producing content that will be used across all of their traditional and DTC platforms and a distribution group, which is focused on distribution and commercialization activities across these platforms and which has full accountability for media and entertainment operating results globally. The Walt Disney Company entertains, informs and inspires people around the globe through the power of unparalleled storytelling, reflecting the iconic brands, creative minds and innovative technologies families have come to love for over 90 years.