Jeremy Guy
Directing
Biography
Jeremy Guy is an award winning director and cinematographer living in Los Angeles. His work includes a wide variety of projects including narrative feature films, major television shows, and independent documentaries. Many of these projects have played at prestigious film festivals including the Cinequest Film Festival, the Dallas International Film Festival, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and countless others around the world. Several projects have also won major awards, such as the documentary he shot, Beyond All Boundaries, which has won six Best Film awards and can be seen on Netflix and television around the world. Other award winning projects include Weak Species, which Jeremy shot, that won four Best Film awards, Greatest Hits, which Jeremy directed, winner of the 2Change Films filmmaking competition, and Perspectives, which Jeremy directed, that the Santa Barbara Independent called a “perfect film.” Jeremy also works a great deal in the television world and recently was the director of photography of a ten episode series for the NBC Sports network called Nock Out. Currently, Jeremy is promoting his feature documentary, Purdah, that he directed, produced, and shot. Purdah was recently released on Amazon Prime Video. The film follows a young woman in India who recently removed her burkha for the first time to pursue her dream of becoming one of the only Muslim women to play cricket professionally in all of Mumbai. The film has recently been called a “must-see” and “a real-life Bend It Like Beckham” by NPR. You can find out more about Purdah at www.purdahfilm.com. Jeremy graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara Film Studies Program with Highest Honors and Departmental Honors before earning his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California in Film Production.
Known For
Classmates Steve and George are part of a frightening food chain. For Steve, high school is a game. Seducing his classmates gives him his sense of purpose and fuels his art and poetry. When Steve sets his sights on the school star athlete, he starts a cat and mouse chase which could ruin him and his idol. George, the school recluse, copes with the stress of his mother's cancer and strained relationship with his father by cutting class and using drugs. Hooking up with a stranger in an effort to lose himself, George finds himself in a life or death situation. At odds with each other, George and Steve have more in common than they realize. As their paths spiral downward, they could save each other - or continue on their way to self-destruction.
Weak Species
The inspiring story of a young Indian Muslim woman who trades her burka for dreams of playing on the Mumbai Senior Women's Cricket Team and how the harsh realities for women in her country creates an unexpected outcome for her own family, ultimately shattering and fueling aspirations.
Purdah
In 1946, the young bride Nazgol relocates with her husband to South America where he has just been appointed the Iranian Ambassador. Plucked from her homeland and disconnected from even the smallest semblance of familiarity, Nazgol discovers that she is able to do things that would once have been forbidden in her homeland. However her newfound liberation may come at a price.