Simon Kilmurry
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Simon Kilmurry is a documentary producer, executive producer, and consultant. He has received one Prime Time Emmy Award, 17 News & Documentary Emmys, and six Peabody Awards. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the Producers Guild of America, the Television Academy, and has served on the board of jurors of the Peabody Awards since 2016.
He served as executive director of the International Documentary Association (IDA) (2015-2021) where he oversaw all of IDA's programs and established the Enterprise Documentary Fund, providing over $5 million in funding to documentary films. Prior to IDA he was the executive producer of "POV", the PBS showcase of independent documentaries (2007-2015) and where he co-founded the WORLD Channel documentary series "America ReFramed".
He has served on film festival juries around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, Visions Du Reel, Shanghai TV Festival, Astra Film Festival, DocAviv, Movies that Matter, Nordisk Panorama, Big Sky Documentary Festival, Dokufest Kosova, Tribeca Film Festival, Jhilava and Zurich Film Festival amongst others.
He served as executive director of the International Documentary Association (IDA) (2015-2021) where he oversaw all of IDA's programs and established the Enterprise Documentary Fund, providing over $5 million in funding to documentary films. Prior to IDA he was the executive producer of "POV", the PBS showcase of independent documentaries (2007-2015) and where he co-founded the WORLD Channel documentary series "America ReFramed".
He has served on film festival juries around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, Visions Du Reel, Shanghai TV Festival, Astra Film Festival, DocAviv, Movies that Matter, Nordisk Panorama, Big Sky Documentary Festival, Dokufest Kosova, Tribeca Film Festival, Jhilava and Zurich Film Festival amongst others.
