Jeremy Podeswa

Jeremy Podeswa was awarded Best Director honours at the 2000 a hrefcanadianfilmawardsgeniesGeniesa for his feature iThe Five Sensesi A graduate from the film studies program at Torontos Ryerson Polytechnic Institute Podeswa completed a directing fellowship at the American Film Institutersquos Center for Advanced Film Studies in Los Angeles Podeswa wrote directed and coproduced his first feature film emEclipseem which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and screened at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals and the New DirectorsNew Films series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York His second feature iThe Five Sensesi received its world premiere at the Directorrsquos Fortnight program of the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 The film was nominated for nine Genies and won the best director award iFugitive Piecesi was selected to open the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival Beginning with an episode of emWeedsem in 2009 Podeswas calendar has been quite full directing episodes of some of the top series on television In July 2018 Jeremy Podeswa received one of 22 Emmy Award nominations given to the series emGame of Thronesem his specifically for his work on the episode titled emThe Dragon and the Wolfem Fellow Canadian a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscaohsandraSandra Oha received a nomination for best actress in a drama for her role in the BBC America thriller emKilling Eveem becoming the first woman of Asian descent to ever score a nod in that category a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscamaslanytatianaTatiana Maslanya was also nominated for her work on the series emOrphan Blackem Maslany won an Emmy in 2016 for that same seriesbrbrbr