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Coming to Streaming & DVD on December 3rd!
MUCH ADO ABOUT DYING
A New Documentary by Simon Chambers
“One of the biggest hits at IDFA! Simultaneously touching, endearing and often riotously funny." - Deadline

“Joyous clarity…bittersweet empathy…in this achingly funny-sad film." - Variety

"In its refreshingly frank look at the end of life, Much Ado About Dying becomes a thought-provoking study of what it means to live." - Screen Daily

"The best kind of documentary. It will make you laugh and cry.
It will also make you pause for thought."
- BackSeat Mafia

"Chambers’ masterpiece is a tender and often funny chronicle of a dying man who secretes his brilliant charisma." - The Film Verdict

"A charming, playful man, the elderly actor’s spirit comes alive whenever he’s in frame. His limitless optimism and cheer in the face of constant setbacks genuinely inspires, and Chambers smartly contrasts his various, intractable eccentricities with how much his charm brings joy to others.
- Indiewire
 
When the filmmaker Simon Chambers receives a call from his elderly gay uncle – “I think I may be dying!” – he takes it as a summons.

As it turns out, eccentric Uncle David, a retired actor living alone in a cluttered, mouse-infested London house, is being dramatic, sort of: For the next five years, Chambers both cares for and documents him, through all his performative exuberance and anarchic charisma, as various people (including a sexy young hustler) possibly take advantage of him.

As their lives become encumbered by hospital visits, a house fire, and Britain's inadequate eldercare system, the younger man (also single and queer) reflects with aching honesty on what may await him in the years to come, in this moving yet hilarious film.

Festivals & Awards

IDFA – Best Directed Film
DOCUTAH - Best Feature


Merlinka Int’l Queer FF – Best Documentary Film
NorthEast IFF – Audience Award for Best Film
Jakarta Independent FF – Best Documentary Film
Milton Keynes FF – Best Documentary Film

DocPoint Helsinki |
CPHDOX | HotDocs Toronto | DocAviv
Sheffield Doc Fest | DocIreland Belfast | Galway Fleadh
Tallinn Black Nights FF | Santa Barbara IFF
DocUtah | Capital Irish FF (DC) | LA Irish Festival
More About Director/Producer Simon Chambers

Simon taught disadvantaged teenagers in London for 14 years before turning his hand to films. In 2006, with his first feature ‘Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears’, he realised that he had a knack for making the kind of documentaries that people want to watch. ‘Every Good Marriage’ was shown on BBC Storyville, and on TV in around 30 countries. 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. In 2010 he moved to New Delhi where he taught at an Islamic university. In 2015 he moved back to London to become the carer for his uncle, David Newlyn Gale, a retired gay actor who was living in squalor and needed support. When Uncle David died in 2020 Simon decided to make a film from the footage they had shot together.

Selected Filmography: Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears (2006), Cowboys in India (2009), Much Ado About Dying (2022)
MUCH ADO ABOUT DYING
A documentary by Simon Chambers
84 minutes | color | English | 2023
Streaming Platforms Include Amazon & Apple TV
Streaming Launch Date: 12/3/24

DVD SRP: $19.95  |  DVD UPC: 7-20229-91839-8  |  Street Date: 12/3/24


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