Jeremiah Hayes (filmmaker)


Jeremiah Hayes is a Canadian film director, writer and editor. He is most noted as co-director, co-writer and the editor of the film Reel Injun, for which he won the Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program at the 25th Gemini Awards in 2010. Hayes is also recognized for his work editing ', for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018. Reel Injun went on to win a Peabody Award for Best Electronic Media in 2011 and ' won the Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling at Sundance Film Festival in 2017.
As a director, his other award winning credits include Elefanti, Silence & Storm, God Comes As a Child, and The Prom.
His other credits as an editor include such award winning films as Tia & Piujuq, Above the Drowning Sea, Sol, The Wolverine: The Fight of the James Bay Cree, Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women, The Last Explorer, Inside the Great Magazines, Vendetta Song, and Unbreakable Minds.
Jeremiah is currently directing and producing a feature documentary entitled Dear Audrey about the life of Canadian filmmaker Martin Duckworth, and his wife Audrey Schirmer's struggle with Alzheimer's. Dear Audrey is produced by SwingDog Films, Cineflix Media Inc, The National Film Board of Canada, and The Super Channel.

Honors

In 2010, Hayes was awarded a Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program for his work co-directing on Reel Injun. In 2018, he would win the Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing in a Documentary for his work editing . Reel Injun won a Peabody Award for Best Electronic Media in 2011 and won the Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling at Sundance Film Festival in 2017.
Other honors are listed in the filmography below.

Personal life

Born in Walnut Creek, California on April 18, 1966.
Graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production at Concordia University Montreal in 1990.
Son of Jeremiah F. Hayes who is recognized in the field of Electrical Engineering.

Filmography