Simon Lereng Wilmont

director
Biography
Simon Lereng Wilmont has won numerous prizes, including Best First Appearance at IDFA with the feature documentary The Distant Barking of Dogs,and his two previous films The Fencing Champion (2014) and Chikara — The Sumo Wrestler’s Son (2013) both premiered at IDFA, won the Jury Award for Medium length Documentary and Best Short Children’s Documentary Award at the Al Jazeera Film Festival 2015. In 2022 Simon won the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award for A House Made of Splinters at the Sundance Film Festival. The same film also got him an Academy nomination at the 2023 Oscars. Simon Lereng Wilmont graduated as a documentary film director from the National Danish Film School in 2009.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
Girl Away From Home (2022, director), A House Made of Splinters (2022, director), The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017, director), The Fencing Champion (2014, director), Chikara – The Sumo Wrestler’s Son (2013, director)

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