Bart Simpson (born c. 1970) is a Canadian producer and director of documentary and fiction films.[1] He is most noted as a producer of the 2003 feature documentary The Corporation, which was the winner of the Genie Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 25th Genie Awards in 2005.[2]
Born in Victoria, British Columbia, and raised in the suburb of Esquimalt,[3] he is a graduate of Simon Fraser University.[1] His early artistic projects included the short film Vampire's Guide to Sweden, and the fringe festival musical Phat Tank.[1]
Following the success of The Corporation, Simpson acted as Canadian producer on Moebius Redux featuring illustrator Jean Giraud,[4] and acted in the same capacity for the feature documentary Bananas!* with Swedish director Fredrik Gertten.[5] The latter film was hit with a lawsuit from Dole Food Company in summer 2009.[6] Subsequently, Gertten directed the film Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, which featured the Bananas!* filmmaking team including Simpson, and told the story of their fight against Dole as a First Amendment case.[7]
In 2017, Simpson premiered his film Brasília: Life After Design.[8] He is currently in production on The Mad World of Harvey Kurtzman, slated for release in 2025.[9]
Simpson is a past national chairperson of the Documentary Organization of Canada.[10]