Production companies and organizations
National Geographic & Disney+ | The Walt Disney Company (US)
Planète+ | Canal+ Group
Ushuaïa TV | TF1 Group
Ladybirds Films, Paris
Zadig Productions, Paris
Memento Productions
Galaxie Presse, Paris
Imagissime | Mediawan, Paris
Gédéon Programmes, Paris
NHK (Japan)
SODEC (Canada)
Festival Selections/Awards
Special Award ADEME in the ‘Climate Change’ category of the DOCU competition at Deauville Green Awards 2020 (France)
EcoCup Green Talks 2020 (Russia)
Special Prize of NGO Mondo at Matsalu Film Festival 2020 (Estonia)
Festival Nature Namur 2020 (Belgium)
Nominated in Youth Category of Japan Prize 2020 (Japan)
Cinemambiente 2020 (Italy)
Devour 9.5 ! The Food Film Fest 2020 (Canada)
Naturvision Film Festival 2021 (Germany)
Festival du Film Vert 2021 (Switzerland).
Festival International du Grand Reportage d’Actualité 2019 (France)
Festival International du Film Ethnographique de Québec 2020 (Québec, Canada)
Visions du Réel Film Market 2021 (Switzerland)
International Center of Photography Prize for Best Concept, Hack the Photo 2016 (New-York)
Education
École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
Columbia University School of the Arts, New-York
Simon Kessler is a French filmmaker, writer and Director of Photography based in Paris .
He has worked on many documentaries for french and international networks such as National Geographic, Disney+, TF1, Canal+.
In 2019, his documentary AF447: In Search of Flight AF447 has been featured by the Guardian, France Inter, Radio-France International and Radio-Canada. In 2020, his documentary Generation Greta was selected in many film festivals around the world and won several awards.
In addition to his television work, Simon has directed a number of creative documentaries. His personal practice privileges intimate portraits of people, places and institutions in intersticial moments.
Simon has worked and lived in the US, Canada, and Australia.