Simon Rumley

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Simon Rumley
Born	London, England, UK
Occupation	Writer/Director
Years active	1994–present

Simon Rumley is a British screenwriter, director and author.

Biography

After starting out as a runner, Rumley began writing feature scripts, including Club Le Monde, Shot and Phew and was invited onto the Carlton Television Writing Course. After writing and directing Strong Language and Laughter, his film Stranger Than Fiction was shown in Cannes. Seen as a promising young film maker, he was invited to Austria by the European Film Academy and in 1999 wrote, produced and directed The Truth Game and Strong Language, were released through the BFI at London's National Film Theatre, both films being noted for their 'intensity and a quest for emotional honesty'^[1] Screen International described him as "one of the great British cinematic outsiders, a gifted director with the know-how to puncture the conventions".^[2]

2002's Club Le Monde was released through UGC Cinemas and in 2004 he directed The Handyman, starring Greta Scacchi and Bill Sage.

During this time Rumley began writing a script entitled The Living In The Home of the Dead - a psychological horror film. The script was picked up by Nick O'Hagan (Pandaemonium, Young Adam) and after being reworked and retitled, it was released as 2006 film The Living and the Dead, starring Roger Lloyd Pack. It premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and played over 40 festivals worldwide, garnering over twenty five awards.

In 2008 Rumley wrote the first draft of the screenplay that would become Red White & Blue. Filmed the following year, it starred Noah Taylor, Marc Senter and Amanda Fuller. Premiered in Rotterdam in 2010, it was described as 'exploring the darker side of humanity with bone-chilling results' ^[3]

He has contributed segments to several anthologies - Bitch in the psycho-sexual horror anthology Little Deaths, and 'P for Pressure' in The ABCs of Death.

Films (as writer/director/producer)

2012 The ABCs of Death (segment "P Is for Pressure")
2011 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (short)
2011 Little Deaths (segment "Bitch")
2010 Red White & Blue
2006 The Handyman (short)
2006 The Living and the Dead
2002 Club Le Monde
2001 The Truth Game
2000 Strong Language
1994 Phew (short)

References

↑ Contemporary British and Irish Film Directors: A Wallflower Critical Guide (p295), Allon, Yoram, Columbia University Press (2002)
↑ Screen International, 11 January 2013
↑ Fangoria, 28 September 2011

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Name	Rumley, Simon
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