--- name: "Aaron Schimberg" canonical: "https://film.one/person/aaron-schimberg" fi1m_id: "aaron-schimberg" imdb_id: "nm3661688" tmdb_id: 1184053 wikidata_id: "Q124516347" roles: ["Director"] born: "1 January 2000" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T21:06:13.759603+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Aaron Schimberg ## Identity Aaron Schimberg - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/aaron-schimberg - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** aaron-schimberg - **IMDb ID:** nm3661688 - **TMDB ID:** 1184053 - **Wikidata ID:** Q124516347 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Schimberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124516347, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3661688/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1184053 Director. Born 1 January 2000 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 1 January 2000, Chicago, Illinois, USA - **Also known as:** Аарон Шимберг - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Schimberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124516347, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3661688/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1184053 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*The Chair Company*](https://film.one/tv/the-chair-company.md) (80) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Aaron Schimberg > Aaron Schimberg makes dark comedy from the way people judge appearances. His feel for discomfort serves *The Chair Company* well, though its awkward scenes sometimes continue after the joke has finished. In *The Chair Company* (2025), Ron takes a broken office chair personally and starts investigating. Schimberg helps make the search funny and unsettling, although the series sometimes prolongs the embarrassment beyond the joke. Tim Robinson's performance and the supporting cast give us good reason to stay with it. We found the search unsettling because the places Ron visits look so ordinary. The directors let his suspicion grow without requiring us to believe he has understood those places correctly. His features began with *Go Down Death* (2013), followed by *Chained for Life* (2018) and *A Different Man* (2024). The later work repeatedly returns to facial disfigurement, performance and the way people judge appearances. *Chained for Life* examines disability through film production, asking what happens when cinema turns people into subjects. It does not pretend that making a film about disability automatically means treating its subjects well. Actor Adam Pearson has worked with Schimberg on two films, and producer Vanessa McDonnell on three. Schimberg directed three episodes of *The Chair Company*, and the credit for its unease belongs to more than one person. Fellow director Andrew DeYoung shares that understanding of how threatening the investigation needs to feel. Ashley Connor's cinematography makes everyday surroundings sinister without settling the question of Ron's judgement. Production designers Jason Singleton and Rocio Gimenez give the odd characters places that look convincingly ordinary. These are useful collaborators for a director interested in how appearances affect what people believe. The reservation is about timing. There are scenes in *The Chair Company* where we have grasped the embarrassment and are still being asked to sit through it, with too little extra laughter for the wait. Schimberg's interest in discomfort is worth having, but discomfort alone cannot carry a scene indefinitely. Start with the series for Robinson and the unsettling investigation, allowing a little patience for scenes that have already made their point. ## Biography Aaron Schimberg is an American filmmaker. His debut feature *Go Down Death* (2013) closed the Fantasia Film Festival. His second feature *Chained for Life* (2018) premiered at BAMcinemaFest and was released theatrically by Kino Lorber. Schimberg's third feature *A Different Man* (2024), starring Sebastian Stan and distributed by A24, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He directed three episodes of the series *The Chair Company* (2025). He is married to producer Vanessa McDonnell, who has worked on all his films. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Chair Company* (2025), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-chair-company.md) ## Complete filmography (8) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Chair Company* (2025), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-chair-company.md) - *A Different Man* (2024), as Man in Bar (uncredited) · Director, Writer, Executive Producer - *The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed* (2024), Thanks - *Resurrection* (2022), Thanks - *Chained for Life* (2019), Director, Additional Music, Writer, Sound Designer - *John's of 12th Street* (2014), Producer - *Go Down Death* (2014), Writer, Director, Original Music Composer, Sound Designer - *Late Spring/Regrets For Our Youth* (2009), Writer, Director ## Gallery - ![Aaron Schimberg](https://film.one/media/person/26904/gallery-af05a81e4ca4.jpg) Aaron Schimberg — Image via TMDB - ![Aaron Schimberg](https://film.one/media/person/26904/gallery-66b3cd9d1240.jpg) Aaron Schimberg — Image via TMDB - ![Aaron Schimberg](https://film.one/media/person/26904/gallery-24edb1275665.jpg) Aaron Schimberg — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Sitges Film Festival Best Screenplay award 2024: Sitges Film Festival Best Screenplay award (won), for *A Different Man* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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