Simon Sohel TaufiQue is a British-Indian, Emmy-nominated, and award-winning producer and film composer based in NYC. He is a Sundance, Berlinale, and Tribeca Alumni. He is a Fellow of the ASCAP/Columbia University Film Composing lab, Gotham Episodic Producing Lab, and the Trans Atlantic Producing Lab. He currently teaches Film Producing at NYU and the Sundance Institute. He has produced films (and composed the music) for Lionsgate / Universal (“Imperium”), Amazon Originals (“New Yorker Presents”), eOne (“Jesus Henry Christ”) and HBO MAX (“Weight of Gold”; “Land of Gold”), alongside auteur-driven films like Sundance directing award-winner (“Ricky”), Berlinale forum prize-winner (“She’s Lost Control”), Emmy-nominated Iraqi War Documentary, “The Interpreters”, and “Imperium”, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Toni Collette to name a few. He has been featured in profiles on NPR, NBC News, Medium, numerous podcasts, and publications.

TaufiQue’s introduction to the film industry began on early projects with M. Night Shyamalan and later included collaborations with Reinaldo Marcus Green, Cary Fukunaga, Anja Marquardt, Kevin Smith, Rashad Frett, and Mary Harron.

Simon has also worked as a community organizer, bringing filmmakers together by hosting a monthly NYC filmmaker salon (Squalor Film) that now numbers thousands of members. Simon also contributed as an Oscar-qualifying festival juror (Bermuda), Short Film Programming Committee (Tribeca), and former Co-President of HRTS Associates-NY. He’s a proud member of BAFTA, a member of the Television Academy, Producers Guild of America-East, and the SCL.

Simon is represented by IAG and records for the Warner-Chappell label. He is a dual citizen of Great Britain and the United States.