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Marc H. Simon

Marc H. Simon

American filmmaker and entertainment attorney

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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    Burr, Ty (2006) "Freed by DNA, but still shackled by society", Boston Globe, 3 February 2006, retrieved 2011-07-11
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    Catsoulis, Jeanette (2009) "First Preschool, Then the Ivy League", The New York Times, 24 April 2009, retrieved 2011-07-11
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    Wells, Ryan (2011) "Q&A with Entertainment Lawyer and Filmmaker Marc H. Simon Archived 30 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine", cinespect.com, 14 June 2011, retrieved 2011-07-11
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    Farber, Stephen (2011) "Unraveled: Film Review", The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2011, retrieved 2011-07-11
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    "Marc H Simon and Rom Bar-Nissim, Fox Rothschild". Screen Daily. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
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    "SaraJane Lieb, Marc Simon". The NY Times. 22 October 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
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