Marc H. Simon is an American filmmaker and entertainment attorney.

He created, wrote and produced After Innocence,[1] which won the special jury award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, before going on to receive other recognition, including its selection as a semi-finalist for Best Feature Documentary at the 78th Academy Awards. Nursery University (2008) marked Simon's feature directorial debut.[2] The film premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs Film Festival. The documentary Unraveled (2011) was Simon's second directing effort and third as a producer.[3] The film centers around prominent lawyer Marc Dreier, who was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from hedge funds.[4]

Simon also served as lead legal counsel for films such as Winter's Bone, The Kids Are All Right, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Money. As of June 2020, Simon has been named Chair of an American law firm Fox Rothschild's Entertainment Law Department.[5]

Simon is a graduate of Cardozo Law School and the University of Pennsylvania.[6]

References

  1. Burr, Ty (2006) "Freed by DNA, but still shackled by society", Boston Globe, 3 February 2006, retrieved 2011-07-11
  2. Catsoulis, Jeanette (2009) "First Preschool, Then the Ivy League", The New York Times, 24 April 2009, retrieved 2011-07-11
  3. Wells, Ryan (2011) "Q&A with Entertainment Lawyer and Filmmaker Marc H. Simon Archived 30 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine", cinespect.com, 14 June 2011, retrieved 2011-07-11
  4. Farber, Stephen (2011) "Unraveled: Film Review", The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2011, retrieved 2011-07-11
  5. "Marc H Simon and Rom Bar-Nissim, Fox Rothschild". Screen Daily. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  6. "SaraJane Lieb, Marc Simon". The NY Times. 22 October 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
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