Marc H. Simon is an American filmmaker and entertainment attorney.
He created, wrote and produced After Innocence,[1] which won the special jury award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, before going on to receive other recognition, including its selection as a semi-finalist for Best Feature Documentary at the 78th Academy Awards. Nursery University (2008) marked Simon's feature directorial debut.[2] The film premiered at Toronto's Hot Docs Film Festival. The documentary Unraveled (2011) was Simon's second directing effort and third as a producer.[3] The film centers around prominent lawyer Marc Dreier, who was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from hedge funds.[4]
Simon also served as lead legal counsel for films such as Winter's Bone, The Kids Are All Right, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Money.[citation needed] As of June 2020, Simon has been named Chair of an American law firm Fox Rothschild's Entertainment Law Department.[5]
Simon is a graduate of Cardozo Law School and the University of Pennsylvania.[6]
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