Directing
Aaron Schimberg
Place of birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
10 titles
Aaron Schimberg is an American filmmaker best known for the 2019 film Chained for Life and the 2024 film A Different Man. 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. A Different Man, Schimberg's third feature starring Sebastian Stan and distributed by A24, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. He was named one of the top ten new directors to watch by Variety at that year's Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Known for
6.9Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.
A Different Man
2024
6.3A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
Chained for Life
2019
5.7A cross-episodic melange of macabre folktales supposedly penned by folklorist Jonathan Mallory Sinus.
Go Down Death
2014
NRMan is destroyed by nature, saved by nature. His nature, her nature, birds, trees, lakes.
Late Spring/Regrets For Our Youth
2009
JOHN’S OF 12TH STREET is a portrait of a century-old Italian-American restaurant in New York City, one of the last of its kind in a rapidly changing East Village. This observational documentary loosely follows the rhythm of the restaurant’s day, which swings between boredom and frenzy as the old rooms empty and fill. No one who works at John’s is actually Italian, but some have been here for 40 years, including two pairs of brothers and a father and son. JOHN’S OF 12TH STREET catalogues the overlooked details of working life and a vanishing facet of New York City.
John's of 12th Street
2014
Film credits
Behind the camera
6.9Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.
A Different Man
2024
6.9Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.
A Different Man
2024
6.3A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
Chained for Life
2019
6.3A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
Chained for Life
2019
5.7A cross-episodic melange of macabre folktales supposedly penned by folklorist Jonathan Mallory Sinus.
Go Down Death
2014
5.7A cross-episodic melange of macabre folktales supposedly penned by folklorist Jonathan Mallory Sinus.
Go Down Death
2014
NRMan is destroyed by nature, saved by nature. His nature, her nature, birds, trees, lakes.
Late Spring/Regrets For Our Youth
2009
NRMan is destroyed by nature, saved by nature. His nature, her nature, birds, trees, lakes.
Late Spring/Regrets For Our Youth
2009
JOHN’S OF 12TH STREET is a portrait of a century-old Italian-American restaurant in New York City, one of the last of its kind in a rapidly changing East Village. This observational documentary loosely follows the rhythm of the restaurant’s day, which swings between boredom and frenzy as the old rooms empty and fill. No one who works at John’s is actually Italian, but some have been here for 40 years, including two pairs of brothers and a father and son. JOHN’S OF 12TH STREET catalogues the overlooked details of working life and a vanishing facet of New York City.
John's of 12th Street
2014