Bart Simpson is a Canadian producer and director of documentary and fiction films. He started his education in political science and philosophy, however quickly transferred those interests to a variety of media arts. Bart Simpson is best known for producing the feature documentary '' The Corporation'' with his former production company FOX in Vancouver, Canada. The film has won 26 awards and commendations, including major awards at the

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,66 ...

, Toronto International Film Festival, and

International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam. Over a period of twelve days, it has screened more than 300 films and sold more than 250,000 tic ...

. It is the highest-grossing domestic documentary in Canadian history, and is in the top 40 documentaries in the U.S. Simpson acted as Canadian producer on ''Moebius Redux'' featuring illustrator Jean Giraud, which won Best Film at Comicon International, and acted in the same capacity for the feature documentary ''

Bananas!* ''Bananas!*'' is a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten about a conflict between the Dole Food Company and banana plantation workers in Nicaragua over alleged cases of sterility caused by the pesticide DBCP. The film was critic ...

'' with Swedish director

Fredrik Gertten Carl Fredrik (von) Gertten (born 3 April 1956 in Malmö) is a Swedish filmmaker, producer and journalist. In 2017, he was appointed as an honorary doctor at Malmö University. He is a brother to the documentary filmmaker Magnus Gertten. In 1994, ...

. The film was hit with a lawsuit from Dole Food Company in summer 2009. Subsequently, Gertten directed the film '' Big Boys Gone Bananas!*'', which featured the ''Bananas!*'' filmmaking team including Simpson, and told the story of their fight against Dole as a First Amendment case. It premiered in the US at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012. In 2017, Simpson premiered his film ''Brasília: Life After Design'' at the

Sheffield Doc/Fest Sheffield DocFest (formerly styled Sheffield Doc/Fest), short for Sheffield International Documentary Festival (SIDF), is an international documentary festival and Marketplace held annually in Sheffield, England. The Festival includes film sc ...

. Simpson is a past National Chairperson of the

Documentary Organization of Canada The Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) is a non-profit organization representing the interests of independent documentary filmmakers in Canada. Founded as the Canadian Independent Film Caucus (CIFC) in the 1980s Canada. DOC advocates for ...

, and has spoken widely in Canada and abroad on documentary policy and practice.

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Bio
from '' The Corporation''
The Documentary Organization of Canada/Documentaristes du Canada
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