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Jeremy Kagan         REPRESENTATION Larry Becsey Becsey, Wisdom and Kalagian Tel: (310) 550-0535	Search for a director using keywords such as genre or special skills. Search this site                 powered by FreeFind

Director, Writer and Producer in feature films and television. Some of my theatrical movies, starting with the box office hit HEROES, include THE BIG FIX, THE CHOSEN (Grand Prix at the Montreal World Film Festival and Christopher Award in 1982), BY THE SWORD and THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN, the first American film to win a Gold Prize at the Moscow Film Festival in 1987. Among my many television movies are are KATHERINE, and CONSPIRACY: THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 8 (HBO 1988 ACE Awards for Best Special Dramatic Special), I both wrote and directed. DESCENDING ANGEL, COURAGE, COLOR OF JUSTICE and ROSWELL: THE UFO COVER-UP, which I produced and directed and was nominated for a 1994 Golden Globe. I received the 1996 EMMY for Outstanding Direction of a Drama Series. I also teach a master class at USC and serve as the Artistic Director of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute.   FILMOGRAPHY FEATURE FILMS HEROES (1977) Director - Universal Starring Henry Winkler, Sally Field, and  Harrison Ford. THE BIG FIX (1978) Director - Universal Starring Richard Dreyfuss. Festivals: Deauville GRAND PRIX ROUEN 1979 THE CHOSEN (1981) Writer/Director - Fox Starring Rod Steiger & Maxmillian Schell Festivals: Berlin, Deauville. GRAND PRIX, WORLD FILM FESTIVAL, MONTREAL CHRISTOPHER AWARD 1982. THE STING 2 (1983) Director - Universal Starring Jackie Gleason, Oliver Reed, Teri Garr, Karl Malden & Mac Davis. THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN (1985-6) Director - Disney Starring  Meredith Salenger & John Cusack. Festivals: Berlin, Mill Valley & Telluride. BEST FILM,  ACADEMY OF FAMILY  FILMS. GOLD PRIZE, MOSCOW FILM FESTIVAL 1987 BIG MAN ON CAMPUS (originally "The Hunchback of UCLA" -1989) Director - Vestron, released on video. Starring Corey Parker, Tom Skerritt & Cindy Williams. BY THE SWORD  (1991-2) Director - Independent  Feature -released on video. Starring  F. Murray Abraham, Eric Roberts & Mia Sara. INCOMING (2000) TELEVISION FILMS MY DAD LIVES IN A DOWNTOWN HOTEL (1973) Director - Metro-Media An After-School Special for ABC starring Beau Bridges. Nominated for an Emmy. UNWED FATHER (1974) Director - ABC/ Wolper Productions Starring Joe Bottoms and Kay Lenz. JUDGE DEE (1974) Director - ABC with an all Asian cast. KATHERINE (1975) Writer and Director - ABC Starring Sissy Spacek, Henry Winkler & Art Carney. Festivals: San Francisco (first television film so honored), Chicago. SCOTT JOPLIN (l976) Director - NBC and Universal Starring Billy Dee Williams. Festivals: Cannes, London. Also released as a feature. SLEEPING BEAUTY (1983) Director - Showtime With Chris Reeve, Bernadette Peters & Beverly D'Angelo. COURAGE (l986) Director - CBS/New World 3 hr Special with Sophia Loren & Billy Dee Williams. CONSPIRACY:THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 8 (1987) Writer, Director and Producer -  HBO Starring  Robert Loggia, Peter Boyle, Robert Carradine, Eliott Gould & Martin Sheen. ACE AWARD, BEST DRAMATIC SPECIAL, 1988 DESCENDING ANGEL (1990) Director-HBO With George C Scott, Diane Lane and Eric Roberts. DR QUINN: MEDICINE WOMAN (1992) Director - CBS Pilot starring Jane Seymour & Diane Ladd. ROSWELL: The UFO Conspiracy (1994) Producer/Writer/Director - Showtime Starring Kyle McClaughlin and Martin Sheen. GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINEE 1994 COLOR OF JUSTICE (1997) Director - Showtime Starring Judd Hirsch, Gregory Hines, F. Murray Abraham & Bruce Davison. THE HIRED HEART (1997) Director - Lifetime Starring  Penelope Ann Miller. SERIES TV KAREN SISCO (2003) THE HANDELER (2003) TAKEN (2002 mini series) BOOMTOWN (2002) THE WEST WING(1999) CHICAGO HOPE 1996  Emmy for Best Director PICKET FENCES Episode selected as one of the top 100 shows of all time by  tv critics. ALLY McBEAL (1997) COLUMBO THE BOLD ONES MUSIC VIDEOS Including Sly Stone's EVERYDAY PEOPLE SHORTS ONCE UPON A LINE Animation, 1968 Festivals: Chicago, London, NSA, Independent Filmmakers. FIRST PRIZE - ASIFA - AMERICAN ANIMATORS MATE-GAME Experimental, 1969 Festivals:  Edinburgh, NBC New Filmmakers, Chicago, NSA. HOW DO YOU SEDUCE A MAN? Comic documentary, l969 Festivals: New York, Chicago, London. THE "WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE MOVIE?" MOVIE Comic-documentary, 1970 Festivals:  New York,  Chicago, San Francisco. Distributed by Time/Life. THE LOVE SONG OF CHARLES FABERMAN, 1973 AFI Festivals: SILVER  KNIGHT - MALTA  FESTIVAL, Edinburgh, Mannheim GOLDEN EAGLE, CINE 1974. MULTI- MEDIA NO MORE MONDAYS  (1970) A touring multi-screen show with holograms made for the White House Conference on Youth and Education. EDUCATION Harvard '67 - BA, Magna Cum Lauda in Russian History and Literature - thesis on Sergei Eisenstein N.Y.U '69 - MFA at Institute of Film and Television AFI  - first class of '69 SERVICE Artistic Director at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute since 1991 - 1996 National Board Member of the Directors Guild of America since 1985 Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Film School of USC Guest lecturer for Phi Beta Kappa, the AFI and the Motion Picture Academy  REPRESENTATION Larry Becsey Becsey, Wisdom and Kalagian Tel: (310) 550-0535   (c)2004 DirectorsNet.com, Inc. All rights reserved. DirectorsNet is not affiliated with the Directors Guild of America, Inc. (DGA), nor is DirectorsNet sponsored, authorized, or endorsed by the DGA