Lucien Simon

Lucien Simon has worked as a freelance filmmaker, writer and community artist since 2006. He has directed six short films, screened at International Film Festivals including, Palm Springs, Chicago Reeling, Newfest (New York), Saint Kilda and Flickerfest and won the Open National award at the 2010 Canberra Short Film Festival with his short film STRIPPED BARE. His feature-length film BREEDING IN CAPTIVITY is currently in Post-Production. Lucien has directed over 15 plays and produced over 20 community art events with companies such as Riverland Youth Theatre, BIG hART, SCAPE, the Australian Script Centre, Vitalstatistix, CIA, Wild@heART, The Song Room, Barking Spider Visual Theatre Melbourne Workers Theatre, Kickstart Arts and festivals such as the Festival of Voices (Tas), the Adelaide Fringe Festival, The Come Out Festival, ARTrage (WA) and The Hobart Fringe Festival. In 2015 he created the by-youth film program Transistor Youth Arts as a response to the State Government cuts to Education. In 2018 Transistor will create THREAD a large-scale film project about the impact of displacement on refugees and communities.