Fortis Simons is an award-winning filmmaker (writer-director, editor) and keen poet from the edges of London’s Willesden Green.His first narrative short (written, produced, directed and edited) ‘Love of Words Words of Love’ screened at multiple BAFTA, BIFA qualifying festivals including Aesthetica Film Festival. It was nominated for a Roya... Read More

Fortis Simons is an award-winning filmmaker (writer-director, editor) and keen poet from the edges of London’s Willesden Green.His first narrative short (written, produced, directed and edited) ‘Love of Words Words of Love’ screened at multiple BAFTA, BIFA qualifying festivals including Aesthetica Film Festival. It was nominated for a Royal Television Society student award, ‘Best Scripted’ in 2021.In early 2022, he was selected onto the Screenskills Edit Trainee Film Finder Scheme, as he loves helping visually craft other voices and stories to life in the cutting room. In the editing realm Fortis has currently finished working on the BBC/BFI feature film directed by Luna Carmoon, ‘Hoard’ in the editing department under the mentorship of the editor Rachel Durance as an edit trainee.Fortis was an Edit trainee on a virtual production shoot at Warner Bros. Studios working on the Bedlam Productions project ‘Hamble.’He has just finished his latest short ‘Where Does Time Go To Have Fun’ (writer/director/editor), a docu-drama promo, where tennis, time and poetry meet.Fortis is currently an assistant editor on the new Asif Kapadia Film ‘2073’, learning from the Bafta award winning editor of ‘2073’ Chris King.As a filmmaker and poet, Fortis wants to know what makes us unique, by examining experiences and stories of human connection, human vulnerabilities and artistic communication through the delicate relationship between visual storytelling and poetry. Read Less