Jeremy Podeswa Overview

Jeremy Podeswa always aspired to be a director. Having grown up in Toronto, he attended CHAT (the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto) and went on to graduate in 1984 from the film studies program at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute. He then moved to Los Angeles where he completed a directing fellowship at the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies (now the AFI Conservatory). In 1983, 21-year-old Podeswa used his student loans to make his first short film, titled David Roche... See All