Simon Target

Who is Simon Target?

Simon Target is a British/Australian film-maker. He is best known for a series of self-filmed television documentaries he made for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation which include King's School, Flight for Life, The Academy, and Rough Justice. Uni, his study of a group of dissolute arts students at Sydney University, featured Charles Firth, Craig Reucassel and Andrew Hansen, who formed the comedy group The Chaser. Hansen later satirised Target in CNNNN, where he played the network's British correspondent who was also called Simon Target.

Target wrote and directed the feature film Backsliding, starring Tim Roth, with an original score by Australian composer Nigel Westlake, and the TV series Operatunity Oz - a nationwide talent search to find an ‘undiscovered’ opera singer. Target has also directed live opera for the stage in England and the USA, with artists such as Simon Keenlyside, Simon Russell Beale and conductor Andrew Parrott.

Other work includes TV series with Donna Hay, Curtis Stone, Ben O'Donoghue, Kylie Kwong, Ainsley Harriott and Rick Stein. In 2010 he wrote and directed the natural history series Penguin Island, with Rolf Harris for BBC Television.