Jeremy Podeswa
Jeremy Podeswa | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Ryerson University AFI Conservatory |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1984–present |
Jeremy Podeswa (born 1962) is a Canadian film and television director. He is best known for directing the films The Five Senses (1999) and Fugitive Pieces (2007). He has also worked as director on the television shows Six Feet Under,[1] Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The Pacific.[2] He has also written several films.
In 2014, he directed episodes
Biography
Jeremy Podeswa was born in 1962 in Toronto, Ontario. He is Jewish, and his
"...my sexual orientation is one element among others. I believe that the experience of belonging to a minority, whether tied to sexual orientation, religion or race, changes your perspective you can have on of our environment and things in life. My orientation is only one part of me: I am Jewish, my parents are immigrants, I am North American. All these things and many others make what I am. It would be very restrictive, even a mistake, to say that my work or any other filmmaker’s can be reduced to the dimension of sexual orientation.[10]"
He was part of a loosely affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave.
In 1983, 21-year-old Podeswa used his student loans to make his first short film, titled David Roche Talks to You About Love —a 22-minute performance about a gay actor and his views on love.[7] The aspiring director then took jobs as a production assistant, assistant editor and a publicist before he started directing his own films. During the eighties and nineties when he just started his career, he made Canadian indie shorts and features such as The Five Senses, Eclipse, and Fugitive Pieces (2008), loosely based on a novel by Anne Michael, which was awarded the opening night slot at the 2007 International Film Festival. The film has since received critical acclaim. Podeswa has recently made a name for himself directing critically acclaimed and commercially successful television shows, such as Boardwalk Empire, Six Feet Under, True Blood, Dexter, Game of Thrones and Queer as Folk.[11]
Awards
Altogether, Jeremy Podeswa has won 20 awards while having 34 nominations for his expert works. Podeswa was given two
In addition, he won an award at NewFest: New York's LGBT Film Festival for the Best Short. Podeswa won an award at the Newport Beach Film Festival in 2008 for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. In addition he won Best Short at the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. His most recent accomplishments occurred in 2015 and 2018, where he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Direction of a Drama Series with Game of Thrones.[12]
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2001–2004 | Queer as Folk | 4 episodes |
| 2001–2005 | Six Feet Under | 5 episodes |
| 2002 | The Chris Isaak Show | Episode: "Just Us Kids" |
| 2003–2005 | Carnivàle | 4 episodes |
| 2003 | Nip/Tuck | 2 episodes |
| 2004 | The L Word | Episode: "Lagrimas de Oro" |
| 2004 | Wonderfalls | Episode: "Totem Mole" |
| 2005 | Rome | Episode: "Utica" |
| 2005 | Into the West
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Episode: "Ghost Dance" |
| 2005 | Commander in Chief | Episode: "Rubie Dubidoux and the Brown Bound Express" |
| 2007 | Dexter | Episode: "That Night, A Forest Grew" |
| 2007 | John from Cincinnati | Episode: "His Visit: Day Six" |
| 2007 | The Riches | Episode: "This Is Your Brain on Drugs" |
| 2007–2010 | The Tudors | 8 episodes |
| 2009 | Empire State | TV short |
| 2009 | Weeds | Episode: "Where the Sidewalk Ends" |
| 2010 | The Pacific | 3 episodes (co-directed 1 episode) |
| 2010 | Rubicon | 2 episodes |
| 2010–2014 | Boardwalk Empire | 7 episodes Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series |
| 2011 | Camelot | 2 episodes |
| 2011 | The Borgias | 3 episodes |
| 2011 | True Blood | Episode: "I Wish I Was the Moon" |
| 2012 | Homeland | Episode: "In Memoriam" |
| 2012–2013 | American Horror Story: Asylum | 2 episodes |
| 2012–2013 | The Newsroom | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | The Walking Dead | Episode: "Dead Weight" |
| 2013 | Ray Donovan | Episode: "Road Trip" |
| 2014 | American Horror Story: Coven | 1 episode |
| 2015–2017 | Game of Thrones | 6 episodes Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Nominated - Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series |
| 2015 | True Detective | Episode: "Down Will Come" |
| 2018 | Here and Now | 3 episodes |
| 2018 | The Handmaid's Tale | 2 episodes |
| 2019 | The Loudest Voice | Miniseries; 2 episodes |
| 2019 | On Becoming a God in Central Florida | Episode: "The Gloomy-Zombies" |
| 2021 | The Mosquito Coast | Episode: "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" |
| 2021 | Station Eleven | 3 episodes |
| 2024 | 3 Body Problem | 2 episodes |
Films
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | David Roche Talks to You About Love | |
| 1985 | In the Name of Bobby | |
| 1986 | Nion in the Kabaret de La Vita | Nominated - Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama |
| 1992 | Standards | |
| 1993 | Walls | |
| 1993 | Caveman Rainbow | |
| 1994 | Eclipse | |
| 1999 | The Five Senses | Won – Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
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| 2000 | 24fps | |
| 2001 | Touch | |
| 2007 | Fugitive Pieces |
References
- ^ HBO. "Six Feet Under cast and crew". Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ HBO. "Jeremy Podeswa on The Pacific". Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ "Game of Thrones Season 5: What We Know So Far". Watchers on the Wall. 1 August 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ "Game of Thrones 67". HBO. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- ^ Jeremy Podeswa Archived 15 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine, "But as he developed his craft, being Jewish wasn’t something he felt he needed to incorporate into television and film projects."
- ^ Scott, Alec (September 2007), "The Prodigal Son", Toronto Life, archived from the original on 15 January 2013, retrieved 19 March 2008
- ^ a b "Jeremy Podeswa biography and filmography | Jeremy Podeswa movies". Tribute.ca. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
- ^ "Jeremy Podeswa" Archived 7 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16 August 2011
- ISBN 1-903364-52-3
- ^ "Jeremy Podeswa". www.mediaqueer.ca. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
- ^ "'A feeling of awe' for Toronto-born, Emmy-nominated director Jeremy Podeswa". Retrieved 8 October 2019.
- ^ "Jeremy Podeswa", Northern Stars, archived from the original on 28 October 2007, retrieved 15 March 2008
External links
- Jeremy Podeswa at IMDb
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