Hi, I’m Simon Hyland

I’m a film and television editor, colourist and director.

You can contact me by email at simonthecolourist@gmail.com

I was born in Canada but have been working in New Zealand as an editor for almost two decades. I am highly experienced with Avid, Davinci Resolve, Premiere Pro and After Effects.

I’ve made a huge range of documentaries

During my seven years working for Attitude Pictures they were accredited by the United Nations as Outstanding Film-makers. I was lead editor and eventually Post Production Supervisor during my time there, and made hundreds of hours of documentaries with them.

I was a writer, post production director and editor on documentary series The Lion Queen, which played on the Discovery Channel around the world.

I edited the hugely successful series Anika Moa Unleashed, for which Anika Moa won Best Presenter at the New Zealand TV Awards, and was also nominated for best comedy series.

I’ve worked on exciting kids shows

One of the episodes I edited of Let’s Get Inventin’ was nominated for an International Emmy.

and highly rated Reality TV shows

I’ve colour graded everything from feature length films to TVCs

as well as making my own animated films

Contact me at SimonTheColourist@gmail.com