Simon Miller

Simon David Miller
Born	England
Alma mater	London Film School, London School of Economics
Occupation	Film writer, director, producer and Media Tech company founder
Years active	2002–present (Film)
Spouse(s)	Jo Cockwell

Simon David Miller is a BAFTA-nominated film writer, director and producer from the United Kingdom. He is also a co-founder of several media technology companies.

Miller's debut feature, the Scottish Gaelic feature film, Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle, was released in 2007. The film was nominated for 3 BAFTAs and Miller for the Michael Powell Award and was warmly received with comparisons drawn to works such as Big Fish and The Princess Bride. It was the first feature film in Scottish Gaelic to gain theatrical release.

The film was written in collaboration with Jo Cockwell and several Scottish Gaelic writers and poets, including: Angus Peter Campbell, Aonghas MacNeacail and Iain Finlay Macleod.

In the autumn of 2007 as the film prepared for its UK premiere in the Highlands, controversy arose as BAFTA refused to put forward Seachd as a candidate for Best Foreign Language Film Category at the 2008 Academy Awards. The ensuing controversy led to widespread coverage in the national and international press and the film's producer Christopher Young resigning his membership of BAFTA.

His second feature, Death Clock is set to shoot in 2018.

The award-winning Scottish Gaelic short film, Foighidinn – The Crimson Snowdrop, debuted at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2005 and went on to screen at film festivals across the world. The film was the inspiration for Seachd which incorporates several sequences from Foighidinn.

Miller's first short film premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2004. Controversy surrounded the film in 2005 when it was incorrectly linked to the death of a child from the school attended by several of the cast.

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