Intro
Simon is an award-winning filmmaker who has made a string of ambitious and landmark projects, working with teams across multiple genres.
He’s written BAFTA-nominated drama, and through his own company, Borough Productions, written and produced an EMMY-winning feature film that secured the International Critics Prize at the Toronto Film Festival and sold theatrically across the globe.
Working for Borough he’s also directed RTS-winning history, and produced a SONY-nominated radio programme.
As a freelancer he’s made BAFTA-nominated specialist factual and RTS-winning science.
In 2019 he exec-produced an EMMY-winning current affairs series on the Kims of North Korea. In 2020 he wrote and directed, through Borough – in partnership with Satore Studio – an award-winning virtual reality short: ‘Hatched’.
In 2021 he was the creative producer and edit director for the BAFTA and triple RTS-winning feature documentary “9/11: Inside the President’s War Room (Apple TV + / BBC), marking the 20th anniversary of the attacks.
In 2022 he produced and directed the critically-acclaimed feature documentary ‘Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen’ (BBC), telling the story of Princess Elizabeth prior to the Coronation, entirely through her own words, and largely through unseen and mute royal home movies. The Queen contributed to the film in May, less than three months before her death.
Simon is often brought in by broadcasters to act as a consultant.
