Jeremy Podeswa

Canadian film and television director

Jeremy Podeswa

Born| 1962 (age 61-62)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nationality| Canadian
Alma mater| 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 five and six of the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones,[3] earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the latter episode. He returned the next season, directing the season premiere and the second episode. He also directed the season premiere as well as the season finale of the seventh season.[4] In 2021, he directed episodes of the TV series adaptation of The Mosquito Coast and the miniseries Station Eleven.

## Biography[edit]

Jeremy Podeswa was born in 1962 in Toronto, Ontario. He is Jewish, and his Polish Jewish father,[5] a painter, was the only one of his immediate family to make it out of the German Nazi camps alive.[6] He attended the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto[7] before graduating from Ryerson University's Film Studies program[8] and the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies (now the AFI Conservatory).[9] He has recently identified as queer and states that it is only one part of his identity:

"...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[edit]

Altogether, Jeremy Podeswa has won 20 awards while having 34 nominations for his expert works. Podeswa was given two Genie Awards in 2000 as Best Director of The Five Senses, which was awarded Best Picture.

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[edit]

### Television[edit]

Year  | Title  | Notes

|
|

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 | 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[edit]

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 Achievement in Direction
Nominated – Genie Award for Best Motion Picture
2000  | 24fps |
2001  | Touch |
2007  | Fugitive Pieces |

## References[edit]

1. ^ HBO. "Six Feet Under cast and crew". Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
2. ^ HBO. "Jeremy Podeswa on The Pacific". Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
3. ^ "Game of Thrones Season 5: What We Know So Far". Watchers on the Wall. 1 August 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
4. ^ "Game of Thrones 67". HBO. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
5. ^ 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."
6. ^ Scott, Alec (September 2007), "The Prodigal Son", Toronto Life, archived from the original on 15 January 2013, retrieved 19 March 2008
7. ^ a b "Jeremy Podeswa biography and filmography | Jeremy Podeswa movies". Tribute.ca. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
8. ^ "Jeremy Podeswa" Archived 7 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16 August 2011
9. ^ Allon, Yoram; Cullen, Del; Patterson, Hannah (2002), Contemporary North American Film Directors, Wallflower Press, p. 425, ISBN 1-903364-52-3
10. ^ "Jeremy Podeswa". www.mediaqueer.ca. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
11. ^ "'A feeling of awe' for Toronto-born, Emmy-nominated director Jeremy Podeswa". Retrieved 8 October 2019.
12. ^ "Jeremy Podeswa", Northern Stars, archived from the original on 28 October 2007, retrieved 15 March 2008

## External links[edit]

* Jeremy Podeswa at IMDb

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