Los Angeles, the „ATL“ & Berlin
Along the way he worked as a video editor for twelve years in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Berlin.
simon’s filmography on the official intl. movie data base here
He has made a living as a voice over artist since 1995 for corporate videos, audio books and commercials. He has been writing screenplays and directing films starting in 2005. Simon has worked in high pressure post production houses opposite Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles, lent his voice to companies like Glashütte, Siemens, L’Oreal and BMW (Demo Reel here), has written and directed sales films and videos for a wide range of customers ranging from General Electric to practitioners who are teaching Yoga or who are helping to birth the New Earth.
Storytelling is Teaching
Simon’s journey has led him to find his own personal meaning in life: to take on the responsibility of the conscious storyteller. To tell the true story of human kind in beauty and detail, in sorrow and drama as well as with humour and wisdom. He realises that “storytelling is teaching and teaching is storytelling. Story is the medium with which we humans record our archetypal wisdom and pass it on. It is also the most vulnerable commodity we have. True stories are what we base our reality on. All stories, paths and teachings are where we find meaning and we depend on them to be as pure as possible. It is the conscious storyteller’s responsibility to travel the path of direct knowledge and consider the true rendering of stories and teachings sacred, beyond individual taste or transitory ideology and hold it up as one of the highest values of the collective human family.“
Simon has built an online platform on which he is sharing his practical knowledge for personal development, for community and for healing. The first hybrid online courses cover initial building blocks for emotional and energetic independence in relationships. From there the courses will eventually include the 4 human powers, or “archetypes” both for personal development and for screenwriters: Soulrise.earth
How it Works
Film industry professionals such as video editors, camera men and women, 3D artists, directors, sound recordists, film composers and online ad campaigners who work in the FilmTruppe constellation are of course also regularly employed as professionals in the film and ad industry elsewhere. They are always happy to contribute their talent and skill sets to new FilmTruppe productions. The number of crew members employed is determined by the needs of the project, i.e. the client and the product itself. FilmTruppe founder Simon B. Veredon usually first discusses the client’s needs in phone calls or Skype conversations, drafts a corresponding concept and makes two or three „recommendations“ regarding the scope of production and tiers of possible budgets. This is always done with the client’s desired end results in mind and can range from very simple to big production. With 30+ years in the industry simon recommends the minimum of what is needed to get the desired high level results.
Simon Bjoergvin Veredon
Simon is a conscious storyteller writing, directing and campaining. He has co-developed stories for screenplays, concepts for TV series, online spots and corporate videos, instinctively looking for the essence of what is being presented. Classically trained at Boston University School for the Arts, he now combines his skills with finding the essence of what his clients are offering to the world.
Working as a professional in the film industry, he managed to integrate a classical spiritual path with a modern day Guru and now also teaches personal development techniques and archetype based storytelling.
Being a practitioner himself he feels close to the needs of clients that are making their way in the world as practitioners of healing modalities, as coaches and facilitators. Of course the needs of bigger clients are no less engaging. In the end it all comes down to finding the core of the offering and discovering the story that is waiting to be told and heard by their target audience .
Typologies & Storytelling
His search for meaning has taken him to the archetypal knowledge of the 4 human powers of the soul, which he has taught in his Archetype Seminars in Berlin and developed an original way of casting and character development for films and TV series for which he co-founded a group with writers, directors, actors and crew members in Berlin.
This search has also taken him to the shamanic level of journeying, through his beloved and life partner Diana Beaulieu. Together they are actively discovering the depths of life, human history and storytelling, co-developing original stories and archetypally authentic character arcs.
FilmTruppe Constellation
FILMTRUPPE was founded by simon in 2013 in Berlin as a „constellation“, not a company, of like-minded industry professionals. Simon set himself the goal of truly exploring the purpose of an assignment and discovering the „story“ of a product or a project together with the client and letting what he finds flow into the concept, script and finally the production. He conducts his conceptual search for meaning and story under his „People Get You!“-methodology and then collaborates, where practical and sensible, on the finished concept, script and shot ideas with his trusted FilmTruppe professionals. The array of departments include: camera, sound recordist, sound mixers, filmscore composition, editing, 3D CGI, and online ad campaign specialists and agencies.
