Aaron Schimberg is an American filmmaker best known for the 2019 film '' Chained for Life'' and the 2024 film ''

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''.

Career

Schimberg's debut feature, ''Go Down Death'', was the closing film of the 2013

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. His next film, '' Chained for Life'', premiered at the 2018 BAMcinemaFest and was released theatrically by

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the following year. Schimberg's third feature ''

'', starring

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and Adam Pearson and distributed by

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, premiered at the

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. It was nominated for the

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at the

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. He was named one of the top ten new directors to watch by ''

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'' at that year's

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Personal life

Schimberg was born in Chicago and grew up in Minneapolis. He was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate and cites it as the reason he gravitates toward narratives about facial disfigurement and disability. Schimberg is married to Vanessa McDonnell, who is a producer on all of his films.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Notes

References

External links

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