Career
He is best known for a series of self-filmed television documentaries he made for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation which include King"s School (on The King"s School, Sydney), Flight for Life (about the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia), The Academy (on the Australian Defence Force Academy), and Rough Justice (about the legal profession). Uni, his study of a group of dissolute arts students at Sydney University, featured Charles Firth, Craig Reucassel and Andrew Hansen, who formed the comedy group The Chaser Hansen later satirised Target in CNNNN, where he played the network"s British correspondent who was also called Simon Target. Target wrote and directed the feature film Backsliding, starring Tim Roth, with an original score by Australian composer Nigel Westlake, and the television series Operatunity Oz - a nationwide talent search to find an ‘undiscovered’ opera singer.
Target has also directed live opera for the stage in England and the United States of America, with artists such as Simon Keenlyside, Simon Russell Beale and conductor Andrew Parrott.
Other work includes television series with Donna Hay, Curtis Stone, Ben O"Donoghue, Kylie Kwong, Ainsley Harriott and Rick Stein. In 2010 he wrote and directed the natural history series Penguin Island, with Rolf Harris for British Broadcasting Corporation Television.
Target was born in the United Kingdom. Educated at Westminster School, London, where he starred in a British Broadcasting Corporation television documentary about the school directed by Jonathan Gili, then read Music and English at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He attended Britain"s National Film and Television School making his first films with fellow students Molly Dineen, Michael Caton-Jones, Nick Park and Mark Herman.
Target and Zatorska produced "Sugared Orange - Recipes and Stories from a Winter in Poland" published by Tabula in October 2013.
