News | September 2025

Agathe Simon is currently developing a film commission from the Bocage Ornais cooperation center, funded by DRAC Normandy and the Normandy region. Recently programmed at the Les Safra’numériques digital arts festival, her video Microcosmos has just been selected by the editors of Fisheye Immersive magazine (a reference media dedicated to digital and immersive arts) for its March 2025 best-of of digital works. Simon was recently named laureate of an ADAGP grant for artistic research time. She has also been awarded an immersive creation fund by the CNC (French National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image) for Celestial Attraction, the immersive and interactive installation in her Cosmos cycle.

An associate researcher at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Simon will soon be giving a lecture on her creative and research process at the Théâtre Amavada Lorge in Caen. She was recently invited to take part in an Arts & Sciences round table organized by INSA Rouen at the National Dramatic Center of Normandy in Rouen, France. She was also the guest on #1257, the new podcast from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne university, for an episode dedicated to creation in extreme environments.

A mentor at Sorbonne University, she has recently given The Art of Pitch’ workshops for Masters 2 students specializing in screenwriting. She is currently preparing a new year of her film workshops at Sorbonne University.