Simon Chambers Pro

Simon  Chambers was a Youth Worker in  London for 14 years helping disadvantaged teenagers. In 2004 he won the Royal Television Society award for best European Student Documentary. In 2006 his first feature documentary Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears  was shown on BBC Storyville, and shown on TV in around 30 countries, winning several prizes at festivals. In 2009 he completed feature length documentary “Cowboys in India” which has also won several prizes and has shown on TV in UK, USA and India. His short fiction “Playing Dead” showed at Cannes in 2010. He has taught at the National Film and Television School in the UK and at Jamia Millia Islamic university in New Delhi. He makes intimate, personal low/no budget films which are filmed in the present tense and likes to think that he has a knack for making the kinds of films that ordinary people want to watch. His latest film "Much Ado About Dying" won Best Directed Film at IDFA and has been described as a "masterpiece" by Film Verdict and "Refreshingly Frank, Humorous and Unflinching" by Screen Daily.