Simon Hunter

Simon Hunter was born on May 26, 1969 in UK. Simon Hunter's big-screen debut came with Razor Blade Smile directed by Jake West in 1998, strarring Irate Police V / O (voice).

Simon Hunter grew up in Dumfriesshire Scotland. Simon made his first film 'Spaceman' when he was just seven. He spent his early School years making super 8 epics in the woods rather than attending class! Simon traveled to Zaire to shoot a documentary on super 8 about life on the riverboats that travel on the Congo river. In 1990 he went to study at Film Production at the University for Creative Arts in Farnham, England. Simon specialized in thriller shorts films and made an ambitious graduation film Tea and Bullets which told the tale of two pensioners racing across England looking for King Arthur's cave. Simon's first feature, Lighthouse, was released theatrically in 2002. Simon subsequently became a much sort after commercials director before returning to features with Edward R Pressman's Mutant Chronicles in the Summer of 2006. In 2016 Simon directed his passion project, EDIE which tells the tale of an older lady who climbs a mountain in Scotland at the age of eight three. The film was completed in 2017 and premiered at the Edinburgh International film festival. The movie went on to win audience awards at the Cleveland, Berkshire and Hell half Mile film festivals. The film was released theatrically in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, France, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and will open in the United States in fall 2019. Simon lives in the German capital, Berlin.