Aaron Schimberg

Aaron Schimberg is an American filmmaker best known for the 2019 film Chained for Life and the 2024 film A Different Man.

Career Schimberg's debut feature, Go Down Death, was the closing film of the 2013 Fantasia Film Festival. His next film, Chained for Life, premiered at the 2018 BAMcinemaFest and was released theatrically by Kino Lorber the following year.

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 Year Title Ref. 2013 Go Down Death New Hampshire Film Festival Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature Method Fest Independent Film Festival Best Director Feature Film Best Feature Film Sitges Film Festival Best Screenplay Gotham Awards Best Feature Independent Spirit Awards Best Screenplay Palm Springs International Film Festival Top 10 Directors to Watch