BIOGRAPHY
SIMON MARRIOTT
Originally from New Zealand, Simon is a Produce, working in feature films, broadcast television and branded content.
While training as an actor at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Simon worked with young people and community groups as a drama tutor.
It was here that he developed his love for film and the power of storytelling, so on graduation, Simon cut his teeth in the film industry as part of a film collective with a passion for positive social change.
Taking on the role of a Director/Producer, Simon worked with charities, schools and community groups to create award-winning content that was recognised nationally and internationally, including a European Medea award commendation, a Diana Award for Anti-Bullying film 'The Anti-Social Network' and a European Commission Award for children's content.
Moving from the charity world into the corporate world he has created content for some of the world’s biggest brands including Puma, Arsenal Football Club, Nokia, H&M, Louis Vuitton, and AC Milan and has managed productions for influencers and celebrities such as Michael Dappah and Kevin Hart and directors such as Adrian Shergold and Miller Bennet.
In 2020 at the start of the pandemic, Simon Founded ‘On Set Solutions’, Covid Testing for the film and television industry, between 2020-2023 On Set Solutions worked for Disney, Apple, FilmNation, ITV, BBC, and many of the largest UK production companies.
Recent feature credits as a producer include T.I.M (Technologically. Integrated. Manservant), the debut film from British filmmaker Spencer Brown, The film stars BAFTA TV award winner Georgina Campbell (Barbarian), Eamon Farren (The Witcher), and Mark Rowley (The Last Kingdom) alongside Amara Karan (The Night Of), Nathaniel Parker (The Last Duel), and Tom Bell (Late Night Mash). Altitude is handling distribution and Netflix have purchased the UK streaming rights.
Heavyweight, written and directed by Christopher M. Anthony, the film stars Nicholas Pinnock (Top Boy, Marcella and For Life) & Jordan Bolger (Peaky Blinders, The Woman King) lead the cast. Additional cast includes Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter series, Death of Stalin), Rob Malone (Vikings), Barry Aird (Fortitude, Top Boy), Joplin Sibtain (Andor) Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica, Marcella), Nabil Elouahabi (Top Boy, The Night Of), Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners, World on Fire), Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil, The Meg 2) and Osy Ikhile (Black Mirror).
Daddy's Head, A boy and his young, recently widowed stepmother find themselves in fear for their lives after they are visited by a strange and unexplainable creature. Something that appears to mimic a horrifying version of the boy’s recently deceased father.
Julia Brown (World On Fire) and Rupert Turnbull (Nativity Rocks) star as the aforementioned widow and her stepson. Additional cast is rounded out with Nathaniel Martello-White (I Hate Suzie, Small Axe: Mangrove) and Charles Aitken (Happy Death Day, The Girl On The Train).
Short film success includes the award-winning stop animation Brunch, directed by Marnik Loyson which has screened at The Betweter Festival (Netherlands), Encounters 2021, Encounters 2022, Up Close and Personal with Mr Tibbs, Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival 2022, Festival Stop Motion Montréal 2022, British Animation Awards 2022, British Shorts Film Festival (Berlin), Norwich Film Festival, New York Shorts international Film Festival, Short Com International Comedy Film Festival, Alvsbyn Film Festival, Spark Animation 2022, Foyle Film Festival, Screen Power Film Festival, Stockholm City Film Festival, Cardiff Animation Festival, T-Short Animated film Online Festival, Beeston Film Festival, International Animated Film Festival Animocje, Happy Valley Animation Festival, JellyFest Season 7, London International Animation Festival, Dublin Animation Film Festival, Reading and Leeds Festival 2022 (Cinema tent), Weird Market International Animation, Video Games and New Media Market and Festival Vilnius International Short Film Festival and Kino Film- Manchester International Short Film Festival (Winner) Manchester. and Boy in the Back seat directed by Scott Pickup, which has been awarded Winner- People's Vote, Best Script Award – London Finalist- Best short Screenplay, Screen Power Film Festival Glasgow - Finalist- Best short Screenplay, SWN Screenplay Competition - Finalist- Best short Screenplay, The Shepperton Screenwriting Festival - Semi-Finalist- Best short Screenplay, Wiki: The World's Fastest Screenplay Contest! Santa Barbara, Semi Finalist- Best short Screenplay, Your Script Produced! Season 3 - Quarter finalist- Best short Screenplay, Sunday Shorts Film Festival Lisbon - Winner- Audience Award.
In 2015, Simon founded Shout Loud Creative, a boutique service production company specialising in bringing commercially successful genre films to new audiences.
Simon is part of the BAFTA Connect talent development scheme and is represented in the UK as a Producer, Line Producer & Production Manager by Callbox - 01932 592572