Simon David Miller is a writer, director and innovator living in the New Forest, England.
He launched New Forest Film Co to re-imagine the film and television development process, using prototyping, audience testing and start-up philosophies to simultaneously increase diversity and rates of artistic and commercial success rates. TV Series in development include Unbroken Isles, Ghost Heart and Project A along with feature films, Invisible and Honeysuckle Rose.
Simon's first feature film, Seachd - The Inaccessible Pinnacle, was the first Scottish Gaelic film to be released in cinemas. The BAFTA-nominated film is a magical realist ode to story-telling which grew out from his award-winning short film, Foighidinn - The Crimson Snowdrop. He attended London Film School and the National Film & TV School before making his first short film, Dead Man Falls, loosely based on his upbringing as an English boy in Scotland.
He is also the resident Craft Partner for Agile Product & Technology at The Craftory applying two decades of innovation experience to help discover and champion the next generation of cause-driven brands including Not Co, Dropps, TomboyX, Hippeas, Dyper, Ruby Love, Edgard & Cooper and the world largest environmental platform. Moss.
With a postgraduate degree in Economics from the LSE, Simon initially became an investment banker on Wall Street and in the City of London with J.P.Morgan, before joining the music industry, working for Universal Music and as Global SVP of Innovation for EMI Music, working on projects with bands such as Gorillaz and Pink Floyd and looking after Abbey Road Studios. And over the past 20 years, Simon has helped to found and bring to sale several media tech start-ups including Peoplesound (online music), Swopex (media sharing), and most recently Zeebox + Beamly (second screen TV + social and digital marketing).