Jeremy Podeswa
| Jeremy Podeswa | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 49–50) Toronto, Canada |
| Occupation | Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1984 - Present |
Jeremy Podeswa (b. 1962 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian/American 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.
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[edit] Biography
Jeremy Podeswa was born in 1962 in Toronto, Ontario. His father was a painter, and the only one of his immediate family to make it out of the Nazi camps alive.[3] Podeswa graduated from Ryerson University's Film Studies program[4] and the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies (now the AFI Conservatory).[5] He is openly gay.[6]
[edit] Awards
Podeswa was given two Genie Awards in 2000 as Best Director of The Five Senses, which was awarded Best Picture.[7]
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[edit] References
- ^ HBO. "Six Feet Under cast and crew". http://www.hbo.com/six-feet-under/cast-and-crew/index.html. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ HBO. "Jeremy Podeswa on The Pacific". http://www.hbo.com/the-pacific/cast-and-crew/jeremy-podeswa/index.html. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ Scott, Alec (September 2007), "The Prodigal Son", Toronto Life, http://www.torontolife.ca/features/prodigal-son/, retrieved March 19, 2008
- ^ "Jeremy Podeswa" Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16 August, 2011
- ^ Allon, Yoram; Cullen, Del; Patterson, Hannah (2002), Contemporary North American Film Directors, Wallflower Press, p. 425, ISBN 1903364523
- ^ "Sundown at Sundance & More", PlanetOut.com, February 1, 2000, archived from the original on October 19, 2003, http://web.archive.org/web/20031019175949/http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2000/02/01/5, retrieved March 19, 2008
- ^ "Jeremy Podeswa" (– Scholar search), Northern Stars, archived from the original on October 28, 2007, http://web.archive.org/web/20071028090116/http://www.northernstars.ca/directorsmz/podeswa.html, retrieved March 15, 2008[dead link]
- ^ HBO. "Boardwalk Empire episode "Anastasia" synopsis". http://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire/episodes/01/04-anastasia/synopsis.html. Retrieved October 20, 2010.
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