Jeremy Podeswa

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 returned the next season, directing the season premiere and the second episode. He also directed the season premiere as well as the season finale of the seventh season. In 2021, he directed episodes of the TV series adaptation of The Mosquito Coast and the miniseries Station Eleven.

• Name — Jeremy Podeswa • Born — 1962 • Birthplace — Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Education — Toronto Metropolitan University AFI Conservatory • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter • Years Active — 1984–present

Jeremy Podeswa was born in 1962 in Toronto, Ontario. He is Jewish, and his Polish Jewish father, a painter, was the only one of his immediate family to make it out of the German Nazi camps alive. He attended the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto before graduating from Ryerson University's Film Studies program and the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies (now the AFI Conservatory). He has recently identified as queer and states that it is only one part of his identity: He was part of a loosely affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in the 1980s from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. In 1983, 21-year-old Podeswa used his student loans to make his first short film, titled David Roche Talks to You About Love —a 22-minute performance about a gay actor and his views on love. The aspiring director then took jobs as a production assistant, assistant editor and a publicist before he started directing his own films. During the eighties and nineties when he just started his career, he made Canadian indie shorts and features such as The Five Senses, Eclipse, and Fugitive Pieces (2008), loosely based on a novel by Anne Michael, which was awarded the opening night slot at the 2007 International Film Festival. The film has since received critical acclaim. Podeswa has recently made a name for himself directing critically acclaimed and commercially successful television shows, such as Boardwalk Empire, Six Feet Under, True Blood, Dexter, Game of Thrones and Queer as Folk.

• Year — Title — Notes • 2001–2004 — Queer as Folk — 4 episodes • 2001–2005 — Six Feet Under — 5 episodes • 2002 — The Chris Isaak Show — Episode: "Just Us Kids" • 2003–2005 — Carnivàle — 4 episodes • 2003 — Nip/Tuck — 2 episodes • 2004 — The L Word — Episode: "Lagrimas de Oro" • 2004 — Wonderfalls — Episode: "Totem Mole" • 2005 — Rome — Episode: "Utica" • 2005 — Into the West — Episode: "Ghost Dance" • 2005 — Commander in Chief — Episode: "Rubie Dubidoux and the Brown Bound Express" • 2007 — Dexter — Episode: "That Night, A Forest Grew" • 2007 — John from Cincinnati — Episode: "His Visit: Day Six" • 2007 — The Riches — Episode: "This Is Your Brain on Drugs" • 2007–2010 — The Tudors — 8 episodes • 2009 — Empire State — TV short • 2009 — Weeds — Episode: "Where the Sidewalk Ends" • 2010 — The Pacific — 3 episodes (co-directed 1 episode) • 2010 — Rubicon — 2 episodes • 2010–2014 — Boardwalk Empire — 7 episodes Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series • 2011 — Camelot — 2 episodes • 2011 — The Borgias — 3 episodes • 2011 — True Blood — Episode: "I Wish I Was the Moon" • 2012 — Homeland — Episode: "In Memoriam" • 2012–2013 — American Horror Story: Asylum — 1 episode • 2012–2013 — The Newsroom — 2 episodes • 2013 — The Walking Dead — Episode: "Dead Weight" • 2013 — Ray Donovan — Episode: "Road Trip" • 2014 — American Horror Story: Coven — 1 episode • 2015–2017 — Game of Thrones — 6 episodes Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series Nominated - Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series • 2015 — True Detective — Episode: "Down Will Come" • 2018 — Here and Now — 3 episodes • 2018 — The Handmaid's Tale — 2 episodes • 2019 — The Loudest Voice — Miniseries; 2 episodes • 2019 — On Becoming a God in Central Florida — Episode: "The Gloomy-Zombies" • 2021 — The Mosquito Coast — Episode: "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" • 2021 — Station Eleven — 3 episodes, also executive producer • 2024 — 3 Body Problem — 2 episodes • The New Look — 2 episodes