Jeremy Paul Kagan was born on December 14,1945 and is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and television producer.
14 Facts About Jeremy Kagan
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Jeremy Kagan's feature Shot was about what one bullet does to many lives.
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Jeremy Kagan has been a prolific television director, starting already in 1972 at the age of 26, directing "The Most Crucial Game", an episode in the second Columbo season.
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In 1996, Jeremy Kagan won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the Chicago Hope episode "Leave of Absence".
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Jeremy Kagan directed Roswell: The UFO Conspiracy, which garnered a Golden Globe Award nomination.
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Jeremy Kagan directed a movie episode of Steven Spielberg's Emmy winning Taken.
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Jeremy Kagan has worked on several other series shows including The West Wing, The Guardian, Resurrection Blvd.
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Jeremy Kagan produced and directed the ten-part series The ACLU Freedom Files, in 2006 and 2007 which received a number of awards and was shown on Link TV, Court TV and PBS.
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Jeremy Kagan has made a number of short documentaries and advocacy dramatic films for NGOs including The Doe Fund which works with the homeless and formerly incarcerated, and The Democracy School a movement developing local governance, and Bioneers which advances achievements in environmental and social justice.
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Jeremy Kagan is a full tenured professor at the University of Southern California where he teaches the graduate courses in directing and has recently created the Center for Change Making Media which is a hub for research and training in advocacy cinematic genres.
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Jeremy Kagan has served as artistic director at the Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and is on a National Board Member of the Directors Guild of America and chairperson of its Special Projects Committee which provides cultural and educational programs for the 19,000 members.
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Jeremy Kagan is the author of three books Directors Close Up and a "living" eTextbook Keys to Directing.
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Jeremy Kagan is an author, and was a writer on the series Freedom Files.
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Jeremy Kagan's daughter Eve is a graduate of the Harvard Ed School, and is a practicing psychologist, actress, writer, and yoga teacher.