Jeremy Podeswa

Jeremy Podeswa
Born	1962 (age 54–55) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Ryerson University
Occupation	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,Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Queer as Folk, and the HBO World War II miniseries The Pacific. 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, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the latter episode. He also directed the first two episodes of the show's sixth season. He will return to direct for the series' seventh season.

Jeremy Podeswa was born in 1962 in Toronto, Ontario. His father was a Polish Jewish painter, and the only one of his immediate family to make it out of the German Nazi camps alive. Podeswa graduated from Ryerson University's Film Studies program and the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies (now the AFI Conservatory). He is openly gay.

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