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Jeremy Podeswa is the writer and director of three feature films, including the recently completed FUGITIVE PIECES which will open the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival in September. The film,, based on the best-selling novel by Anne Michaels and set in Greece and North America between the 1940's and the 1970's, stars Stephen Dillane and Rosamund Pike.
His other two features are the critically acclaimed films, THE FIVE SENSES and ECLIPSE. THE FIVE SENSES (Fine Line Distribution, starring Mary-Louise Parker) was developed at the Sundance Screenwriters' Lab and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the prestigious Directors' Fortnight section. It was nominated for nine Genie Awards (Canada's Academy Awards) winning for Best Director, and was the recipient of the award for Best Canadian Film at the Toronto International Film Festival.
ECLIPSE (Strand Releasing), screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, New Directors/New Films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Toronto International Film Festival. Like THE FIVE SENSES, it has been distributed worldwide.
Podeswa has also directed episodes of HBO's SIX FEET UNDER, CARNIVÀLE and ROME, and the final 2-hours of the mini-series INTO THE WEST, Executive Produced by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks and TNT (recently nominated for 16 Emmy Awards).
Other TV directing credits include F/X's THE RICHES and NIP/ TUCK: SHOWTIME's THE TUDORS, THE L WORD, QUEER AS FOLK, and THE CHRIS ISAAK SHOW; ABC's COMMANDER IN CHIEF; NBC'S BOOK OF DANIEL; FOX's WONDERFALLS; and the movie for television AFTER THE HARVEST, starring Sam Shepard (winner of the Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Director and nominated for nine Gemini Awards (Canada's equivalent of the Emmy Award), including Best Director).
He was cited by Variety Magazine in its survey of new international directors, "Tomorrow's Hot Exports". He now divides his time between Los Angeles and Toronto.
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