Simon Chambers

Simon Chambers was a Youth Worker in London for 14 years helping disadvantaged teenagers. In 2004, while a student at the National Film and Television School, he won the Royal Television Society award for best European Student Documentary. In 2006 his first feature documentary "Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears" was shown on BBC Storyville, and showed on TV in around 30 countries, winning several prizes at festivals. In 2009 he completed feature length documentary “Cowboys in India” which has also won several prizes and has shown on TV in UK, USA and India. His short fiction “Playing Dead” showed at Cannes in 2010. He has taught at the National Film and Television School in the UK and at Jamia Millia Islamic university in New Delhi, and made films for Oxfam. Filmography When The Pie Was Opened 2003 The Company We Keep 2004 Playing Dead 2004 (Fiction short) Letters Home 2005 Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears 2006 Cowboys in India 2009 Life Begins With Tears 2016