Jeremy Podeswa

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Jeremy Podeswa (b. 1962 in Toronto, Ontario) is an award-winning Canadian/American film and television director. He is best known for directing the television shows Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck and Queer as Folk. 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.[1] Podeswa graduated from the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies (now the AFI Conservatory) in 1984.[2] He is openly gay.[3]

[edit] Awards

Podeswa was given two Genie Awards in 2000 as Best Director of The Five Senses, which was awarded Best Picture.[4]

[edit] Television

Episodes from:

[edit] Films

  • David Roche Talks to You About Love (1983)
  • Nion (film) (1984)
  • The Revelations of Becka Paulsen (1985)
  • In the Name of Bobby (1985)
  • Standards (1992)
  • Walls (1993)
  • Caveman Rainbow (1993)
  • Eclipse (1995)
  • The Five Senses (1999)
  • 24fps (2000)
  • Touch (2001)
  • Fugitive Pieces (2007)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Scott, Alec (September 2007), “The Prodigal Son”, Toronto Life, <http://www.torontolife.ca/features/prodigal-son/>. Retrieved on 19 March 2008 
  2. ^ Allon, Yoram; Cullen, Del & Patterson, Hannah (2002), Contemporary North American Film Directors, Wallflower Press, p. 425, ISBN 1903364523 
  3. ^ “Sundown at Sundance & More”, PlanetOut.com, February 1, 2000, <http://planetout.com/news/article.html?2000/02/01/5>. Retrieved on 19 March 2008 
  4. ^ “Jeremy Podeswa”, Northern Stars, <http://www.northernstars.ca/directorsmz/podeswa.html>. Retrieved on 15 March 2008 

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