At 18 Steven Lewis Simpson was the youngest fully qualified stockbroker
and trader in Britain.
At 23 he shot Ties, his first feature film, which he wrote, produced,
directed, edited and financed through his company Roaring Fire Films.
Ties premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It also
won Best British film at the Cherbourg Film Festival.
Various features followed, including three that premiered at the
prestigious Montreal World Film Festival.
His greatest project to date has been the 13 year quest to tell the
epic story of the Oglala Lakota of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in his
documentary A Thunder-Being Nation where he also shot his feature film
Rez Bomb.