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Simon Shore (born 1959 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) is a British director, writer, and editor. Shore studied film at the Royal College of Art, where he made several short films, including La Boule , which won a BAFTA award and was short-listed for the Student Oscar. He is best known for Things to Do Before You're 30 (2004) starring Dougray Scott, Emilia Fox and Billie Piper, and After Thomas (2006), about a boy with autism. [1] Moviemail called After Thomas "gritty, warm and funny, but above all else is a realistic insight into every parent’s worst nightmare." [2]

Hitchin market town in the North Hertfordshire District in Hertfordshire, England

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Hertfordshire County of England

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Royal College of Art college in Kensington and Chelsea, UK

The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. The only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the world, it offers postgraduate degrees in art and design to students from over 60 countries. As of 2019, the RCA has placed first in the QS World University Rankings in the Art and Design subject area for five consecutive years, since the introduction of subject area rankings in 2014.

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Selected filmography

As director

<i>Get Real</i> (film) 1998 film by Simon Shore

Get Real is a 1998 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Simon Shore, based on the play What's Wrong with Angry? by screenwriter Patrick Wilde. The plot is about gay teenager Steven Carter's coming out to the world. The film was shot in and around Basingstoke, England.

<i>Things to Do Before Youre 30</i> 2004 film by Simon Shore

Things to Do Before You're 30 is a 2005 British film directed by Matthew B Juliff. Its plot concerns a group of twenty-something friends trying desperately to hang onto the friendship of their youth while the responsibility of adulthood is tearing them in different directions. It was written by Patrick Wilde, based on the 1997 Dutch feature film, All Stars, written by Mischa Alexander and Jean van de Velde.

<i>After Thomas</i> 2006 television film directed by Simon Shore

After Thomas is a one-off drama, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on 26 December 2006, on ITV. It was produced by Beryl Vertue and Elaine Cameron, directed by Simon Shore, and written by Lindsey Hill.

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References

  1. "After Thomas" (PDF). Hartswood Films. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  2. "After Thomas". Moviemail. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2013.