Simon Miller

Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle

Miller's debut feature, the Scottish Gaelic feature film, Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle, was released in 2007. The film was nominated for 3 BAFTAs and Miller for the Michael Powell Award and was warmly received with comparisons drawn to works such as Big Fish and The Princess Bride. It was the first feature film in Scottish Gaelic to gain theatrical release.

The film was written in collaboration with Jo Cockwell and several Scottish Gaelic writers and poets, including: Angus Peter Campbell, Aonghas MacNeacail and Iain Finlay Macleod.

In the autumn of 2007 as the film prepared for its UK premiere in the Highlands, controversy arose as BAFTA refused to put forward Seachd as a candidate for Best Foreign Language Film Category at the 2008 Academy Awards. The ensuing controversy led to widespread coverage in the national and international press and the film's producer Christopher Young resigning his membership of BAFTA.

Office Hell

His second feature, Office Hell is set to shoot in 2018.

Foighidinn – The Crimson Snowdrop

The award-winning Scottish Gaelic short film, Foighidinn – The Crimson Snowdrop, debuted at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2005 and went on to screen at film festivals across the world. The film was the inspiration for Seachd which incorporates several sequences from Foighidinn.

Dead Man Falls

Miller's first short film premiered at the at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2004. Controversy surrounded the film in 2005 when it was incorrectly linked to the death of a child from the school attended by several of the cast.

New Forest Film Festival

Miller is the co-founder of the New Forest Film Festival with film critic and broadcaster, Mark Kermode, film professor, Linda Ruth Williams, writer and illustrator Jo Cockwell and film historian, Mike Hammond.

Roles Outside Film

Miller has co-founded and built several media technology start-ups including Peoplesound (an online music store and streaming service), SWOPEX (an online film, music and game exchange) and Beamly (originally second screen app, Zeebox before becoming a social digital marketing platform and agency).

Miller has also worked as an executive in the music industry for Universal Music and EMI. In 2010, Miller competed on TV quiz show Eggheads as a member of winning team, The Black & White Stripes, representing Abbey Road Studios.

Early Life & Education

Miller grew up in Scotland where he attended Meldrum Primary School. He attended Nottingham High School between 1982 and 1989 and Salisbury School, USA in 1990. After undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Economics at the London School of Economics he joined the US investment bank, JPMorgan Chase. He went on to study at London Film School and the National Film & Television School.

In his free time he enjoys mountaineering, which was useful when filming Seachd and Foighidinn where filming took place on in the Cuillin Mountains of the Isle of Skye.