Biography

Simone Smith is a Screen International Rising Star, a BAFTA-nominated filmmaker, and a BAFTA New Talent award-winner from Glasgow. She is known for her critically acclaimed short films RED (2012), SLAP (2018), and THE MÖBIUS TRIP (2023), and her films have screened in major festivals worldwide, including Edinburgh International Film Festival, BFI London, Encounters, Aesthetica, Chicago Underground, and HollyShorts.

Her short SLAP was nominated for a BAFTA and won Jury Special Mention at the Glasgow Short Film Festival, hailed as "surreal poetry" and "an impressionistic knockout" by BFI Sight and Sound. Her debut short RED won a BAFTA New Talent Award for Best Editing, while her latest BFI NETWORK-funded film, THE MÖBIUS TRIP, earned another Jury Special Mention at the Glasgow Short Film Festival for its "radicalism" and "strong and adventurous cinematic vision." It has since screened at 50+ festivals worldwide and won 15 awards - including Best Directing, Best Editing and Best Sound Design - alongside the UK Special Mention at Encounters, Best Film at Torino Underground, Best Midnight Movie at Final Girls Berlin, the Grand Jury Award at Chicago Underground Film Festival. It also made the prestigious BIFA-longlist for Best British Short Film.

Simone is an alumna of EIFF Talent Lab (2019), BFI Network@LFF (2023), and Glasgow Film Talent Mentee (2024). She has three feature films in development: UNTIL SHE BLEEDS, OH, VIRGINIA! and IT'S TOO LATE YOU CAN'T SAVE ME, with BFI Network and Screen Scotland.
- IMDb mini biography by: Cath McKenzie