Jeremiah Hayes

Jeremiah Hayes

editor, writer, director

Jeremiah Hayes was born on Apr 18, 1966 in California. Jeremiah Hayes's big-screen debut came with She Got Game directed by Bobbi Jo Hart in 2003. Jeremiah Hayes is known for Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World directed by Catherine Bainbridge, Link Wray stars as Self and Stevie Salas as Self. Jeremiah Hayes has got 17 awards and 11 nominations so far. The most recent award Jeremiah Hayes achieved is Documentaries Without Borders Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Jeremiah Hayes plays is Tia and Piujuq which will be released on Oct 18, 2018.

Jeremiah Hayes is a Canadian Screen Award, and a Gemini Award winning director, editor, and writer whose filmmaking is honored by a prestigious Peabody Award. 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 Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, 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 Rumble won the Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling at Sundance Film Festival in 2017. In 2020, Rumble received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. In 2021, Reel Injun is featured in the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures core exhibition of the Stories of Cinema.In 2021 Jeremiah released Dear Audrey, a feature documentary which he directed, edited, wrote and produced. In 2021, Dear Audrey won the People's Choice Award at the Montreal International Documentary Festival. In 2022, Dear Audrey won Le Cercle d'or for Best Feature Documentary at the Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke, as well as the Dr. Sydney K. Shapiro Humanitarian Award at the Phoenix Film Festival.As a director, his other credits include the films Elefanti (1989), Silence & Storm (1995), God Comes As a Child (1998), and The Prom (1998).His other credits as an editor include such films as Tia & Piujuq (2018), Above the Drowning Sea (2017), Sol (2014), The Wolverine: The Fight of the James Bay Cree (2014), Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women (2013), The Last Explorer (2009), Inside the Great Magazines (2007), Vendetta Song (2005), and Unbreakable Minds (2004).

  • Birthday

    Apr 18, 1966
  • Place of Birth

    Walnut Creek, California

Known For

Awards

17 wins & 11 nominations

Documentaries Without Borders Film Festival
2022
Best Editing
Winner - Excellence in Editing Award
Dear Audrey (2021)
Festival Cinéma du Monde de Sherbrooke (FCMS)
2022
Best Feature Documentary
Winner - Cercle d'or
Dear Audrey (2021)
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