Simon Wood is a South African filmmaker based in Cape Town.
Director Simon Wood is the recipient of the 2020 World Press Photo ‘Online Video of Year’ award for his latest film ‘Scenes from a Dry City’.
‘Scenes from a Dry City’ premiered in competition at IDFA 2018 and at its US premiere in 2019 won Best Mini Doc at the Academy qualifying Big Sky Festival in Montana. In June the film was awarded an honourable mention at the American Film Institutes premiere documentary festival AFIDOCS.
His previous film ‘The Silent Form’ won four awards at the 2017 SAFTAS (South African Film and Television Awards). This capped a successful year for the film which had its world premiere in Toronto at Hot Docs. ‘The Silent Form’ is a collaboration between Wood and one of South Africa’s most successful artists, the sculptor Dylan Lewis.