Jeremy Podeswa

Directing

Biography

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, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The Pacific. He has also written several films.

Filmography Movies

Acting

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Anatomy of a Working Stiff

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A behind the scenes look at the making of simulated corpses for the TV series "Six Feet Under".

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Anatomy of a Working Stiff

Himself

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Zero Patience

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The ghost of "patient zero", who allegedly first brought AIDS to North America - materialises and tries to contact old friends. Meanwhile, the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton, who drank from the Fountain of Youth and now works as Chief Taxidermist at the Toronto Natural history Museum, is trying to organise an exhibition about the disease for the museum's "Hall of Contagion".

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AIDS Demonstrator

Production

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Eclipse

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A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.

The Five Senses

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Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (vision), a professional house-cleaner has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker has lost her sense of taste, and an older man is losing his hearing.

The Five Senses

Fugitive Pieces

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A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.

Fugitive Pieces

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A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.

Next of Kin

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Twenty-three-year old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all day, the family goes to a clinic where a therapist videotapes them. After Peter watches his tape, he views the tape of a troubled Armenian family, who gave their only son away for adoption when they arrived in Canada. Peter decides to visit this family, and he pretends to be their son, Bedros Deryan. The Deryan family welcomes him with open arms, and Peter tries to patch up the poor relationship between George Deryan and his daughter Azah.

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Jeremy Podeswa’s voiceover-driven 24fps surveys the ways in which generations of one family can pass on their passion for cinema.

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Jeremy Podeswa’s voiceover-driven 24fps surveys the ways in which generations of one family can pass on their passion for cinema.

Preludes

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Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by the festival. Each film screened as a prelude to a feature film in the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival program. The full "Preludes" anthology was screened on the web in November 2000, and was given theatrical retrospectives at the TIFF Lightbox in the subsequent years.