The Producers
Simon Coss - Director
Simon is a freelance filmmaker and screenwriter. Before moving into film, he worked as a journalist for 25 years. He regularly wrote and made television reports for UK Public service broadcaster the BBC, the international news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) and numerous other clients. For much of that time I specialised in European politics. I was based in Brussels for many years and travelled to all of the European Union's countries on stories. Aside from my native English, I speak fluent French, basic Italian and have an understanding of German.
For Two Centimes More… tells the story of La Coop des Masques, a cooperative factory set up in record time next to the western French city of Guingamp, to combat the deadly shortage of surgical masks at the outset of the pandemic. It's a human tale that questions the possibility of re-localising production, what companies could or should be about, and how we want to live in the 'post-COVID' world.
