As Director, As Writer
Clouds over the City
2009
5.7
Simon Galiero
Directing
Place of Birth
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Biography
Born in Montreal in 1978, Simon Galiero becomes coeditor of the online movie magazine Hors Champ (horschamp.qc.ca / offscreen.com), in which he publishes articles and interviews with filmmakers such as Atom Egoyan, Werner Herzog, Jonathan Nossiter. In 1999, he starts with Hors Champ a long series of projections/debates at the Cinémathèque québécoise, screening films of directors such as Brakhage, Buñuel, Ceylan, Ford, Godard, Herzog, Iosseliani, Kubelka, Lefebvre, Olmi. Since 1998, he directed a few shorts, documentary and fiction, like Encore dimanche, The Immigrant and Our jail is a kingdom (Notre prison est un royaume) which won the 2008 Jutra award for best short or medium-length film.
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