Simon Portus was born in Sydney, Australia in 1973. He completed a BA in Film and Theatre at the University of New South Wales in 2000.
His award winning short film Adrift was funded by the NSW Film and Television Office's Young Filmmakers Fund in 2005. Adrift premiered at the Sydney Film Festival Dendy Awards in 2006.
His most recent short film Tomorrow (see trailer below) won Best Film, Best Direction and Best Actor at St Kilda Film Festival. Tomorrow premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2009, was nominated for an AWGIE award and won Best Direction and Best Screenplay at Flickerfest in 2010. Tomorrow was funded by Screen Australia.
Simon is currently developing several feature screenplays with David Curzon, the producer/editor of Adrift and Tomorrow. Loveless, a comedy, is now in advanced development with Screen Australia and is being executive produced by Tim White (The Boys are Back, Gettin' Square, Two Hands) and Leah Churchill-Brown (Beautiful Kate, Suburban Mayhem).
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