Ani Simon-Kennedy was born in New York and raised in Paris. After working in the camera and art
departments, she assisted director Wes Anderson, which cemented her love for directing. At the
Prague Film School, her short film Sea Full of Hooks screened at the Cannes Short Film Corner. In
2011, Simon-Kennedy co-founded Bicephaly Pictures, a production company that focuses on web
series and branded content. In 2013 she wrote, directed and produced her first feature film, Days of
Gray, a dystopian coming-of-age film that was nominated for Best Score at the Icelandic Film Awards
and won Best Album at the Icelandic Music Awards. Days of Gray has screened at film festivals
worldwide, winning Best Emerging Narrative at the 2014 Oaxaca Film Festival. The script for her
second feature, The Short History of the Long Road, won the Dernsie Award for Screenwriting at the
inaugural Bentonville Film Festival presented by Geena Davis and Bruce Dern. It was one of ten
projects selected for the Cine Qua Non Screenwriting Lab and one of twenty scripts participating in
RGB’s Emerging Storytellers during IFP Film Week 2015.