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Aaron Schimberg is an American filmmaker best known for the 2019 film Chained for Life and the 2024 film A Different Man.[1][2]
Schimberg's debut feature, Go Down Death, was the closing film of the 2013 Fantasia Film Festival.[3] His next film, Chained for Life, premiered at the 2018 BAMcinemaFest and was released theatrically by Kino Lorber the following year.[1]
Schimberg's third feature A Different Man, starring Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson and distributed by A24, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.[2] He was named one of the top ten new directors to watch by Variety at that year's Palm Springs International Film Festival.[4]
Schimberg was born with a cleft palate and cites it as the reason he gravitates towards narratives that focus on characters with facial disfigurement, that reflections on a person's face and how the world sees them is his way of writing about his own experience.[5]
Schimberg is married to Vanessa McDonnell, who also works as a producer on his films.[6]
Year | Title | Ref. |
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2013 | Go Down Death | [3] |
2018 | Chained for Life | [1] |
2024 | A Different Man | [2] |
Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2019 | Florida Film Festival | Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature | Chained for Life | Won | [7] |
New Hampshire Film Festival | Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature | Won | [7] | ||
Knoxville Film Festival | Best Narrative Feature Film | Won | [7] | ||
New Orleans Film Festival | Best Narrative Feature | Won | [7] | ||
Champs-Élysées Film Festival | Best American Feature Film | Nominated | [8] | ||
Method Fest Independent Film Festival | Best Director Feature Film | Nominated | [9] | ||
Best Feature Film | Won | [9] | |||
2024 | Berlin International Film Festival | Golden Bear | A Different Man | Nominated | [10] |
Palm Springs International Film Festival | Top 10 Directors to Watch | Won[lower-alpha 1] | [4] |
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