Simon Rouby, painter and visual artist, studied at the Ecole de l’image Gobelins, Paris, and the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. His animated shorts Blindspot and Le Présage (both 2007) and La Marche(2010) were shown at Cannes and Clermont-Ferrand. Adama (2015), his first feature, was nominated for a Césars and European Film Awards. He was resident artist at the French Academy, Rome, from 2016 to 2017.
