Simonee Chichester is an award-winning filmmaker of fiction and documentary films and also directs episodic television. Her work has enjoyed critical acclaim, been televised across the globe and screened internationally, notably at Sao Paulo’s Mostra Film Festival, Rome’s Tertio Millennio Film Festival and Taiwan’s Ethnographic Film Festival.
Credits include the Hot Docs Audience Top Ten feature CHICHESTER'S CHOICE, Short of the Week CAPTIVUS, which premiered at Toronto’s Inside Out Film Festival, the CBC original short film MY GUY, produced for Canadian Reflections, the CBC eOne original television series MOONSHINE and her recent short film , a 2022 Directors Guild of Canada nominee HIM & HER.
Simonee’s a graduate of the Directors' Lab at Norman Jewison’s prestigious Canadian Film Centre, and previously studied acting at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles.
An actor’s director, she has collaborated with acclaimed actors Allana Harkin (Full Frontal with Samantha Bee), Amy Rutherford (Soulpepper’s A Streetcar Named Desire) and Karen Robinson (Schitt’s Creek). She also studied with internationally renowned coach Judith Weston, author of Directing Actors and The Film Director’s Intuition.
Simonee has many projects in development, including episodic television projects and her original feature screenplays, She enjoys producing, directing and writing character-based stories that draw from her own diverse background and personal experience to capture ordinary life unfolding in meaningful ways.
Simonee splits her time between Los Angeles and Toronto with her husband and their dog .
Credits include the Hot Docs Audience Top Ten feature CHICHESTER'S CHOICE, Short of the Week CAPTIVUS, which premiered at Toronto’s Inside Out Film Festival, the CBC original short film MY GUY, produced for Canadian Reflections, the CBC eOne original television series MOONSHINE and her recent short film , a 2022 Directors Guild of Canada nominee HIM & HER.
Simonee’s a graduate of the Directors' Lab at Norman Jewison’s prestigious Canadian Film Centre, and previously studied acting at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles.
An actor’s director, she has collaborated with acclaimed actors Allana Harkin (Full Frontal with Samantha Bee), Amy Rutherford (Soulpepper’s A Streetcar Named Desire) and Karen Robinson (Schitt’s Creek). She also studied with internationally renowned coach Judith Weston, author of Directing Actors and The Film Director’s Intuition.
Simonee has many projects in development, including episodic television projects and her original feature screenplays, She enjoys producing, directing and writing character-based stories that draw from her own diverse background and personal experience to capture ordinary life unfolding in meaningful ways.
Simonee splits her time between Los Angeles and Toronto with her husband and their dog .
