Greg Simmons is an Oscar winning filmmaker — if you count the plastic one he was awarded by his teachers on a school trip to Hollywood! Since that early accolade, he’s graduated with Distinction from the London Film School, and won various (real!) short film awards.

In 2019, he attended the Canal+ Talent Unlimited residency at Canneseries Festival, and was subsequently commissioned alongside co-writer Storm Sigal-Battesti to develop a biting new horror series about the Beast of Gevaudan for M6 France.

Greg and Storm then took part in the 2023 Series Mania Writers Campus, pitching their new show, Goldfish, and were granted €50K of CNC co-production funding. Greg went on to work in a Romanian writers room on a comedy horror about a vampire hospital, that won the Full Moon Creative Lab prize at the Transylvania International Film Festival. Greg was recently hired to write the UK’s first ‘vertical’ phone series, which now has over 3.5M downloads on MiniShorts.

Greg also directs TV commercials back home in London. He’s worked on hundreds of campaigns with over a decade’s experience in the advertising industry, genially doling out orders to such luminaries as Joanna Lumley, Richard E. Grant, Ricky Hatton and John McEnroe.

Here’s a look at some of the lovely commercial clients Greg has directed for…