Jacob Blum

Jeremy Podeswa is an award winning feature film and television director who has been nominated four times for the Best Director Emmy Award (for HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones (twice), and for the Tom Hanks/ Steven Spielberg produced The Pacific (HBO, also nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award). He has most recently Executive Produced and Directed the hit HBOMax limited series Station Eleven (based on the novel by Emily St. John Mandel) and has also recently directed on Apple’s The Mosquito Coast (starring Justin Theroux), on Showtime’s mini-series The Loudest Voice (starring Russell Crowe and Naomi Watts), and On Becoming a God in Central Florida (starring Kirsten Dunst). He has directed for many of the most ground breaking cable television series and mini-series, including The Handmaid’s Tale for HULU; for HBO, Game of Thrones. True Detective, The Newsroom, Here and Now, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood, Rome, Six Feet Under, Carnivale and The Pacific; for Showtime, Homeland, Ray Donovan, The Borgias, The Tudors, Dexter, Weeds, Queer as Folk, The L Word; for AMC The Walking Dead; for F/X American Horror Story: Asylum and Coven; and for TNT the mini-series Into the West (produced by Steven Spielberg and nominated for 16 Emmy Awards). Other credits include the television movie After the Harvest, 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).