Simon Halfon has been designing artwork since the 1980s, starting out at Stiff Records and then assisting Neville Brody, before setting up London and LA design studios in the 90s. Long standing clients included the late George Michael, Oasis and Paul Weller. He creates international campaigns for global acts and continues his work with iconic artists, most recently collaborating for the 3rd time with Sir Peter Blake, for The Who's latest record and working once again with Noel Gallagher on the High Flying Birds ‘Best Of’ Back The Way We Came.
In the mid noughties Simon had started to take an interest in the film industry, inspired by friendships forged during his time in LA. He produced his first feature film in 2008, the Kenneth Branagh directed ‘Sleuth’, which was to become the last screenplay by Harold Pinter and starred Michael Caine & Jude Law. But it wasn't until 2016 that Simon really embraced the film world, when the Gallagher brothers approached him to tell the story of Oasis. As lead producer, he brought together the team to create the award winning feature ‘Supersonic’, a documentary of huge commercial and critical success.
Screenwriting came next, with Simon's first attempt green-lit. A comedy drama series, ‘All You Need Is Me’ tells the story of an unsigned indie rock band from London who make it big in the States. The story mirrors Simon’s own time living in LA, where he was pivotal in securing a little known London band a record deal... that band ‘Bush’ went on to sell 8 million copies of their debut album in the US alone. Simon executive produced the series for ITVX and enlisted feature director Simon Aboud to direct. He garnered cameos from Fallout Boy’s Pete Wentz, the Libertines’ Carl Barat, Elvis Costello and James Corden and it was shot entirely on location in LA & London.
Simon curated the Sunday Times Bestseller: Supersonic – The Complete, Uncut & Authorised Interviews. Working closely with Noel and Liam on this project, the many hours of interviews carried out for the documentary were transcribed and compiled to create a stunning, 400 page companion piece to the film, which is now available in paperback.
The summer of 2023 saw the release of the highly anticipated documentary - WHAM! Produced by Simon alongside Academy Award winning film maker John Battsek and directed by multi award winning director Chris Smith. The film charts George and Andrew's meteoric 4 year journey from leaving school to playing their final gig at Wembley Stadium in 1986. This feature length documentary is released globally by Netflix.
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