Simon Cottee

Film – Brisbane

Simon Cottee is an aspiring young Brisbane based animator and film maker who wishes to do nothing more than continue making short films, even if it means surviving on bugs and berries he finds in the backyard. He\'s just completed an animation degree at the Queensland College of Art, where his graduate film The Wedding, an adaptation of a short story by Jack Vening has taken him from the Cannes film festival to Israel and Palestine. Weird. He has recently raised funding for his new short animated film The Duck via a successful kickstarter campaign. An adaptation of a short story written by Ben Loory and recently heard on This American Life.