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Simon Chambers is shooting a film in India when his uncle David calls him with a message of doom: “I think I may be dying.” What the viewer doesn’t yet know is that David is a total drama queen, a former actor and Shakespeare-lover who has grown old on a diet of attention and applause. Simon finds his life drastically interrupted and everything that could go wrong does go wrong as he tries to help his uncle have a good death.

Simon Chambers

Simon Chambers was a Youth Worker in London for 14 years helping disadvantaged teenagers. In 2004 he completed his training at the National Film and Television School in London where he won the Royal Television Society award for best European Student Documentary. In 2006 his first feature creative documentary Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears was shown on BBC, and showed on TV in around 30 countries, winning several prizes at festivals. He teaches part time at the National Film and Television School in the UK and in New Delhi.

Awards

IDFA Award for Best Directing in International Feature Competition, 2022