Tajine Studio – Producer – 2024 – Present…
Produced Le sentier des absents (doc. 58min), national release 16/10/2024.
Produced Fais le mort! (doc. 70min, with ARTE), and Tatie Lica la bossue (fiction, 15min, in production).
Quilombo Films – Producer – 2021 – 2023
Produced ISSA (2023), ZOU (2022), Hacia la Luz (2022, France 3), Primo Da Cruz (2022), Mon diabète (2021), and Seul Dieu Me Jugera (2021).
Tajine Studio / Armadillo Ent. – Writer – 2021 – Present
Developing Prenez garde au feu! (doc, 75min), CNC scriptwriting grant 2021.
Developing Le jour où un zèbre devint tigre (fiction, in production).
France 3 – Director – 2023
Directed Littoral normand, amour insolent, a poetic documentary written in alexandrins.
CANNESERIES – Scriptwriting – 2022
Selected for TalentUnlimited residency with the series Observant (10x25min, in development with StudioCanal/Vivendi).
Series Mania Institute & La Fémis – Showrunner – 2021
Lille, France, 2021 (12 weeks TV series writing & producing course)
Participated in the EUREKA SERIES with Throw Yourself (10x45min, in development with Sungazer).
Quilombo Films – Writer/Director – 2020 – 2022
Directed Danika, lord of dawa (2022).
Directed Ne pas nous déranger, nous sommes en séance (2020), multi-award-winning, DVD release via KarmaFilms.
Quilombo Films – Writer/Director – 2018
Directed De quoi rêvent les libellules ? (17min), FIDMarseille 2018 selection.
Triptyque Films – Producer – 2019 – 2020
Produced En Formation (2019), and co-produced La Liberté (2017, 222min, Norte Distribution).
Independent – Writer/Director – 2012
Directed Moi, ma mère et l’échec scolaire (108min), selected at FIDMarseille 2012.
Editor of the print edition of Spectres du cinéma (2012).
Festival de Cannes – Jury – 2013
Juror for Prix Révélations France 4, Semaine de la Critique.
Juror at the Paris International Human Rights Film Festival.
Film critic for Technikart and Hommes et migrations.
Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (France) – Director – 2010
Directed Sois Jeune et Parle! (doc. 18min).
Various Companies – Assistant Director – 2010 – 2017
Worked on Retour à Bollème (2017), Swagger (2016), Au secours! (2016), and Des footballeurs contre le paludisme (2010).
Various Films – Translator – 2016 – 2019
Translated for Still Recording, Porte sans clef, Les chants de la maladrerie, Je ne me souviens de rien, Silencio.
Actor – 2015 – 2019
Appeared in Paul Sanchez est revenu! (2018), Hugues (2017), Deux rémi deux (2015), among others.
Millenium Festival Brussels – Jury – 2023
Member of the feature film selection committee at the International Millenium Festival.
a little more about Simon
Writer, Director & Producer
Every 4 years, Simon P.R. Bewick has to decide whether he’s more French than English when it comes to deciding who to back at each Football World Cup.
Always relegated to the position of goalkeeper, his identity anxiety led him to become a flight attendant at Air France, cocktail mixologist for Bacardi, history and geography teacher, sales agent for Twinings and even as a film critic, helping to create the magazine Spectres du cinéma.
In 2013, he was a jury member for the Révélations France 4 prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the Semaine de la critique. When he’s not mixing languages
languages, he sometimes acts in Deux, Rémi, Deux, by Pierre Léon and in Paul Sanchez escaped by Patricia Mazuy, Hugues by Pascal Cervo, and in the film Au secours ! by Bénédicte Brunet.
In 2012, his first feature-length documentary, Moi, ma mère et l’échec scolaire, was selected for the FID Marseille, launched his reflection on the paths of childhood and its wanderings, which he continued in the short documentary De quoi rêvent les libellules? a poetic exploration of adolescence that made its world premiere at FID in
His latest documentary film, Ne pas nous déranger nous sommes en séance, was released in cinemas internationally in September 2021 after winning several awards
and having joined the catalogue of the CNC Images de la culture and Images en bibliothèques then the publisher Karmafilms Commercial distribution is releasing a DVD edition.
Determined to tell stories for teenagers and young adults, his series Throw Yourself was part of the Eureka Series selection, which he pitched at the Series Mania festival in 2022, TalentUnlimited residency at the CANNESERIES festival. His latest series, Observant, was selected in competition at the 25th Valence Scénario festival. For France 3, he directed the documentary Littoral Normand, Amour Insolent, which takes a poetic and committed look at the Normandy coastline, with an original narrative written entirely as a poem in alexandrines and flat rhymes.
In 2023, he won the CNC‘s COCO-I award for the series Ma VDM, co-written with
Denisa Harbuz and Paul-Razvan Macovei, which earned him a place on the Going European programme.
An independent producer in his spare time, he divides his time between writing and directing projects on the edge of genres and formats..
…..but unfortunately still can’t dribble.