Biography

Simón Bross (born February 22, 1960) is a Mexican director and producer.

As a director in advertising he has won at the world's most important festivals: London International Advertising Awards, New York Festival, FIAP (Spanish: Festival Iberoamericano de Publicidad), Círculo de Oro, Clio Awards, and Cannes Lions.

He is the first (and only) Mexican director to be named member of FIAP's "Hall of fame".

Also, Círculo Creativo de México gave him a special tribute for his career in the advertising industry. The Gunn Report (England) ranked him among the world's best advertising film directors.

He also won the award Volcán de Oro in the Festival Pantalla de Cristal for his brilliant career achievements (including other mentions).

He also directs and produces for television. He participated as executive producer in "Diario de un cocinero", which won an award for best TV program by the Travel + Leisure magazine.

In feature film area he has produced such movies as Who the Hell is Juliette? (Spanish: ¿Quién diablos es Juliette?, Second Century (Spanish: Segundo Siglo), "Elvira", Carrière 250/Jean Claude Carrière, as well short film. Produces and directs "Bad Habits" and presents in the Cannes Film Festival.

After, Morelia Film festival awarded him for his film trajectory.

Today he produces and directs fiction films, documentaries, short films, TV series and advertising films.

He produces commercial films such as "We Are The Nobles" and documentary films like Devil's Freedom which in 2017 was the winner for best feature in the Guadalajara International Film Festival and the Documentary Amnesty International prize in the Berlin International Film Festival.

He´s also producer in La 4a Compañía directed by Mitzi Vanessa Arreola and Amir Galván Cervera, which recently won 10 awards Premio Ariel including Best Feature Film, as well as producing the lauded documentary Witkin & Witkin.