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DOCUMENTARY DIRECTION STUDENTS STUDENTS GRADUATED IN 2004 Simon Chambers Rowena Cohen Caroline Deeds John Lundberg Nora Meyer Julie Moggan SIMON CHAMBERS BAA@Cached Films at the NFTS My Bengali Friends The Company We Keep Playing Dead When The Pie Was Opened Far and Near On Hold Having gained a First Class Honours degree in sculpture from Bath Academy of Arts in 1983, Simon showed his work around Europe and the UK. But a burgeoning social conscience and eagerness to see how other people lived their lives led him to a five-year stint as a community worker on a travellers' site, later moving on to become senior youth worker at a rural activities centre for London teenagers. After numerous arrests for campaigning against South African Apartheid and other social issues, Simon worked with the McLibel Campaign and as an AIDS researcher for a prostitutes' collective. Since enrolling at the NFTS, he has tried to find ways to make films about important issues in an entertaining way, such as When the Pie Was Opened, a black comedy about his frustrations with the council when he lived in Hackney. He also produced and co-wrote the fiction short Playing Dead.