Simon Galiero

Simon Galiero (born July 11, 1978) is a Canadian film director and a screenwriter from Quebec.^[1] He is most noted for his 2007 short film Our Jail Is a Kingdom (Notre prison est un royaume), which won the Jutra Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 10th Jutra Awards in 2008.^[2]

His feature-length debut, Clouds Over the City (Nuages sur la ville), was released in 2009,^[3] and won the award for "Best Canadian Film" at that year's Festival du nouveau cinéma.^[4] His second feature film, Small Blind (La mise à l'aveugle), was released in 2012.^[4]

He has also directed the short films À l'insu du plein gré (2001), Encore dimanche (2002), L'Immigré (2005) and Jean Pierre Lefebvre (2013).