SimonPrice
- Editor
Simon Price grew up in Dunedin. Named most innovative graduate at Melbourne's VCA Film School, he worked in Australia for many years as a writer/director, editor and video artist before returning home to help edit King Kong. Price's feature editing credits have since included Blackspot, landmark Samoan drama The Orator, Cambodian-set fable Ruin, Pā Boys, and docos Last Men Standing and Antarctica: A Year On Ice.
Biography
Hardly the kind of person who lounges around waiting for the next gig to arrive, Simon Price demonstrated a knack for getting busy from an early age. By the time he began film school at age 23, Price had already acted on stage and television, directed a 40 minute kung fu short, and written a book about filmmaking.
Screenography
Awards
2014 Milan Film Festival (Italy)
Nominated for Best Editing - Film: for Antartica: A Year On Ice
2013 Asia-Pacific Film Festival (Macau)
Best Editing (shared with Sally Blenheim and Luca Cappelli): for Ruin
“It's a cliche to say that the edit is where a film gets made for the third and final time. It's true of course, but in the digital age everything true about cinema from pre-production through to distribution approaches is being overhauled. We must stay open, be brave and never stop listening.”