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Claire Simon is a French screenwriter, actress, cinematographer, editor, and director.
Early life and education
Simon was born in Britain and raised in southern France. She grew up in a family of writers and painters.[1]
She took courses in anthropology and studied Arabic and Berber.[2]
Career
Simon first worked in the film world when she did an internship to work as an editor at the Algiers Cinematheque.[2]
In the 1980s, she started to make narrative shorts. She received a scholarship to attend a prestigious documentary workshop led by Jean Rouch, one of the founders of cinéma-vérité.[1]
Distinctions
Selections
Three of her films have been selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs, an independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival: Sinon oui in 1997, Ça brûle in 2006, and Les Bureaux de Dieu in 2008.[3]
In December 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Simon signed an open letter published in Libération demanding a ceasefire and an end to the killing of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to be established for humanitarian aid, and the release of hostages.[9][10][11]
