Kia Simon
Motion Graphics

EXPERIENCE

FREELANCE DIRECTOR, EDITOR, MOTION GRAPHICS ARTIST
1995-present
  • Directing and Editing Award-winning Narratives, Documentaries, and Music Videos
  • Designing Motion Graphics for Independent Films
  • Editing and Motion Graphics for Magazine Segments, Commercials, and Corporate Videos
  • Clients : Sony Playstation, Chevron, Planned Parenthood, Young & Rubicam, The Kenwood Group, and more.

    SENIOR MOTION GRAPHICS DESIGNER World Savings
    2005-2006
  • Designing Graphics for corporate videos

    EDITOR, MOTION GRAPHICS Young & Rubicam/SF
    2000-2005
  • Editing and motion graphics for commercials, corporate communications
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    MOTION PICTURE/VIDEO FACULTY Academy of Art College
    1998-1999         
  • Taught editing theory and practice

    VIDEO INSTRUCTOR Drake High School
    1997-1999               
  • Taught intensive video workshops

    PROJECT MANAGER Visionary Media, Inc.
    1994-1995
  • Managed production of interactive television and CD-ROM games
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    ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, WRITER, EDITOR CAV Media
    1991-1993
  • Planned, scripted, and edited corporate and training videos
  • SKILLS

    EDITING SYSTEMS: Final Cut Pro, Avid
    MOTION GRAPHICS: AfterEffects, Photoshop, Illustrator

    SELECTED
    PRODUCTIONS

    KABLUEY MOTION GRAPHICS
    Narrative Feature, 2007
    Created the opening title and end credit animations for this feature film starring Lisa Kudrow and directed by Scott Prendergast.

    DISARMED DIRECTOR, EDITOR
    Narrative Short, 2005
    A wanna-be amputee finds love.

    Bend Film Festival, Tall Grass Film Festival, Oakland International Film Festival, FIND LA Cinemalounge

    THE DIVE DIRECTOR, EDITOR
    Music Video, 2003
    Shot entirely underwater and hand-painted frame by frame.
    In rotation on MTV2
    South by Southwest Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, Film Arts Festival, Seattle Bumbershoot Arts Festival
    Featured on Quicktime.com and downloaded over 20,000 times in two weeks

    THE SWAY DIRECTOR, EDITOR
    Music Video, 2001
    A stalker love story.
    In Rotation on MTV Amp and MTV2 for over a year
    Winner of Grand Festival Award at Berkeley Video & Film Festival
    Best Music Video, Zoie Fest

    TRUCKERS EDITOR, MOTION GRAPHICS DESIGNER
    Radio and Television Campaign, 2001
    Product:Chevron Delo

    Golden Ollie, IBA
    Finalist, London International

    IN PUBLIC SPACE DIRECTOR, EDITOR
    Dance Film, 2000

    Awarded a Pacific Pioneer Fund Grant for Emerging Filmmakers
    Shown: PBS, American Dance Festival, Summerfest Dance Festival
    Winner of “By Women” prize at the Luna Fest
    Best Art Film, Berkeley Video & Film Festival

    NEVER LAND WRITER, DIRECTOR
    Narrative Short, 2000
    A modern retelling of the myth of Peter Pan from the perspective of Tinkerbell.

    Produced in association with the Directing Workshop for Women at the American Film Institute
    Shown: PBS, LA Freewaves, American Digital Arts, Victoria Indie Fest
    Best of Fest, Berkeley Video & Film Festival

    LOOKING FOR SLY CO-PRODUCER/DIRECTOR, CO-EDITOR
    Documentary Short, 1997
    The life of a quiet Armenian sculptor changes forever when he discovers he looks like Sylvester Stallone. “Looking for Sly” follows him from Armenia and  Moscow to Los Angeles on his quest to meet his hero.
    Best Documentary, LA International Short Film Festival
    Best Documentary Short, South by South West
    Winner, Tacoma Tortured Artists Film Festival
    First Place Documentary, New Arts Program
    Shown on PBS

    EDUCATION

    FILM INDEPENDENT
    Directing Fellow, 2006


    AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE

    The Directing Workshop for Women, 13th Cycle, 1999
    One of eight participants selected for this prestigious program

    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA CRUZ

    BA with Honors in Community Studies and Journalism (double major), 1994
    Documentary Thesis received Silver Cindy Award & Departmental Honors