Short Films
Simon has made over 20 short films which have been shown by the BBC, Rolling Stone Magazine website and in film festivals around the world. These include music videos for labels such as Chemical Underground, and artists including Billy Bragg, Get Cape.Wear Cape.Fly. and Franz Nicolay. His short films with Scottish poets have been shown by the BBC and in the UN Climate Change Conference in Mexico, 2010. His animated work with school children won the first ever Children’s Oscars by a unanimous vote at the British Film Institute (2013) and the Shanghai Student Film Festival (2016). His full length script for a forthcoming Jason Statham project is awaiting production. In 2016 Jackson wrote the English script (with Julien de Saint-Jores) to accompany Jean Luc Besson’s promotional film for the successful French 2024 Olympic bid which premiered in a screening to the Olympic Committee in Rio, Summer 2016.