Festivals/Awards:
Official selection: Sheffield Doc Fest, IDFA
Director's Bio-Filmography:
Simon Chambers was born in 1960 and was a Youth Worker in London for 14 years.
In 2004 he completed his training at the National Film and Television School in London
where he made The Company We Keep and other films which try to find entertaining
ways of approaching serious subjects.Other films made as a student include the
investigative comedy When The Pie Was Opened, which tries to unearth corruption in the
inept Hackney Council. Since graduating he has made four short films for Channel Four's
Three Minute Wonder strand, and completed a fiction feature script commission for Film
Four. Every Good Marriage.... is his first independent production and has been selected
for Sheffield Doc fest and IDFA Amsterdam.
Filmography:
2005 - Letters Home
2004 - The Company We Keep
2004 - Playing Dead
2003 - When The Pie Was Opened
2002 - Far and Near
Awards:
Royal Television Society award for best European Student Documentary 2005
Becks Futures prize
Kodak Shorts Official Selection 2005;
Edinburgh Film Festival selection;
Reel Cinema Festival, selection 2005.
Cannes Official Selection 2004;