Biography

Simon Plouffe lives and works as a filmmaker in Montreal / Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang. He studied screenwriting at UQAM and cinema at Concordia University. His film Others’ Gold (2011) was shown at Dok.Fest Munich and Big Sky Film Festival. Those Who Come, Will Hear (2018) won the Jury Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Best Sound at the Gala Québec Cinéma in 2019. His short exploratory documentary Forests (2022) was screened at festivals including Krakow Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, and was featured at the Hong-gah Museum in Taiwan. It won the Art and Experimentation Award at Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma and the Jury Award at Trento, Italy, in 2023. His latest documentary, Seeing Through the Darkness is set to be released in 2025.