Bio

Jeremy Podeswa is an award winning feature film and television director who has been nominated three times for the Emmy Award - for Best Director, Dramatic Series for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” and “Game of Thrones” and for Best Director, Movie or Mini-Series for HBO’s “The Pacific” (for which he was also nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award).

He has  directed for many of the most ground breaking cable television series and mini-series, including for HBO, “Game of Thrones”, “True Detective”, The Newsroom”, Boardwalk Empire”, “True Blood”, “Rome”, “Six Feet Under”, “Carnivale”, “John From Cincinatti” and “The Pacific” (Tom Hanks/Playtone and Steven Spielberg/Dreamworks producers); for Showtime, “Homeland”, “Ray Donovan”, “The Borigias”, “The Tudors”, “Dexter”, “Weeds”, “The L Word”, “Queer as Folk”, and “The Chris Isaak Show”;  for AMC  “The Walking Dead” and “Rubicon”; for F/X “American Horror Story: Asylum and Coven”, “Tyrant”, “Nip/Tuck” and “The Riches”; and for TNT the mini-series “Into the West” (produced by Steven Spielberg and nominated for 16 Emmy Awards).

He has also directed the television movie “After the Harvest”  (Lifetime) starring Sam Shepard, winner of the Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Direction.

He has also written and directed three award winning feature films: 'Fugitive Pieces' (Samuel Goldwyn Films, Opening Night, Toronto International Film Festival) starring Stephen Dillane and Rosamund Pike; 'The Five Senses' (Fine Line Distribution, Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival) starring Mary Louise Parker; and 'Eclipse' (Berlin and Sundance Festivals).