Capturing the Holocaust: Documentary film-making, Remembrance and Family stories

Simon Finch

Holocaust Memorial Day encourages remembrance in a world scarred by genocide. Survivors of Nazi persecution have borne witness for generations – by their very presence, compellingly so. As the last of them die, BAFTA and Emmy award-winning filmmaker Simon Finch (himself the child of a Holocaust survivor) asks how their stories can still be told.

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Simon Finch is a filmmaker, himself the child of a Holocaust survivor. His political and historically-focused work has won or been nominated for numerous awards, including multiple Emmys and BAFTAs.

Screen International has described his dramas as ‘innovative and convincing. Acclaimed for their plausibility, naturalism and integrity’. The include ‘Death of a President’, which won the international critics’ prize at the Toronto Film Festival, and ‘The Day Britain Stopped’.

Recent documentary credits include ‘9/11: Inside the President’s War Room’ for Apple TV, ‘Inside North Korea’s Dynasty’ for National Geographic, and a BBC series on Syria, ‘Dangerous Dynasty: House of Assad’.

His latest project, a film on the Ndrangheta, the Calabrian Mafia, will air as ‘World Wide Mafia’ on Disney +.