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Loïc Simon

Freelance event producer and coordinator.

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I produce and coordinate demanding events: festivals, major sporting events, brand activations, corporate events, venues and film production. In France, where I know the ground and the suppliers, and wherever else yours takes place.

Eight years on construction sites before events: I anticipate, I structure, I deliver.

  • 8 yearsof project management in construction
  • 2 yearsin events, with a certified Event Project Manager qualification
  • A foundation that few people haveParis 2024, Roland-Garros, 24h du Mans, Festival de Cannes

The construction advantage

Technical grounding eight years on site

Before events, eight years as a site manager and project manager in joinery. Running complex sites, coordinating multiple trades, costing, reading drawings, following fabrication.

Running craftsmen, suppliers and a design office with no authority over any of them, settling it when two trades get in each other's way, absorbing a delivery that falls through: that's what eight years on site teaches, and it transfers to an event exactly as it is.

4 sectors I work in

Expertise across sectors: the codes, the people and the emergencies change from one world to the next. The method doesn't.

Festivals · Film · Culture

Production, talent handling and on-site management

  • Site management: build-up, show days, show calling, strike, plus transport, accommodation and driver management
  • Looking after talent, juries and guests, with tailored itineraries
  • Red carpet, screenings, press calls, speeches, premieres and interview junkets

Sport · Major events

Accreditation, flow and logistics

  • Accreditation for every category: athletes, media, suppliers, officials
  • Access incidents and crowd flow on high-attendance venues
  • Interface with security, operations, transport and accommodation teams

Agencies · Production

Freelance production support and site management

  • End-to-end delivery: brief, budget, schedule, execution, debrief
  • Site management and technical coordination for sound, lighting and video
  • Hiring and running on-site crews and suppliers: venues, F&B, entertainment, DJs, décor

Brand · Activations

Activation, set design and on-site delivery

  • Working with the art director, reading and drawing plans, costing and quoting
  • Sourcing materials, managing fabricators, following production
  • On-site logistics, delivery and installation with the suppliers
  • The Grand Rex interior dressed in the film's artwork as guests arrive
    Netflix
  • Empty Grand Rex auditorium before doors, video mapping projected on the set
    Netflix
  • Unifrance welcome desk in a film market space
    Unifrance
  • DJ set on the outdoor stage of the FIFIB village, cour Mably, festoon lighting overhead
    FIFIB
  • Long tables laid under a timber frame, crew finishing the set-up
    Breitling
  • Inside the Breitling pavilion: bar, retail corner and wooden stools under woven pendant lights
    Breitling
  • Bank of self-service dispensing machines at a festival, festival-goers pouring
    Eurockéennes
  • Opening night of the Rendez-vous Unifrance in Paris, glazed atrium with guests on two levels
    Unifrance
  • Autographs signed for the crowd behind the barriers at the Netflix premiere
    Netflix
  • Pink carpet and CANNESERIES lettering outside the Palais, build complete before opening
    CANNESERIES
  • Nouvelles Vagues shuttle parked outside the Casino de Biarritz lit in blue
    Nouvelles Vagues
  • Guests dropped off by a Nouvelles Vagues festival car after dark
    Nouvelles Vagues
  • A series cast at the CANNESERIES photocall, on the pink carpet
    CANNESERIES
  • Private beach pontoon for CANNESERIES, sun loungers and parasols in line
    CANNESERIES
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References

Projects I've worked on, directly or through an agency.

Production & coordination

Loïc Simon, freelance event producer, black and white portrait

Specialist in event production and coordination, in the run-up and on site.

I moved across from construction into event, cultural, sports and broadcast production. I come in as extra hands on demanding projects: festivals, major sporting events, brand activations, corporate events, hybrid venues.

Used to environments with many stakeholders and tight deadlines, I bring rigour, anticipation, operational leadership and an easy way with people.

Based in
Paris, Landes, Basque Country
Travels
France, Europe and beyond
Languages
French, English B2, Spanish A2
Licence
Full driving licence
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Software

  • Airtable
  • AutoCAD
  • Canva
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • FestiCiné
  • Google Workspace
  • Lightroom
  • Microsoft Office
  • Notion
  • Photoshop
  • Premiere Pro
  • SketchUp
  • Slack

Let's work together.

Every good collaboration starts with a conversation.

loicsimon.prod@gmail.com+33 6 32 74 08 79