Jeremy Kagan's Page

This is the site of THE CHANGE MAKING MEDIA LAB which I founded and is housed at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California where I am a full tenured professor and working director, writer and producer.
Here is my bio:

Jeremy Kagan is an international and Emmy award winning director, writer and producer of feature films and television. He teaches intermediate and advanced directing and is the founder of the Change Making Media Lab.

Kagan produced and directed the 10 part series the ACLU Freedom Files in 2006. His feature films include The Chosen winner of the Grand Prix Montreal Festival Christopher Award, the box-office hit Heroes, the political thriller The Big Fix, The Journey of Natty Gann winner of the Gold Prize at the Moscow Film Festival, the comedy Big Man on Campus and the 2007 hybrid feature Golda's Balcony.

Among his many television credits, Kagan was honored with an Emmy for Outstanding Series Directing and a Cable ACE Award for his HBO movie Conspiracy: The Trial Of The Chicago 8, a Golden Globe nomination for Roswell: The UFO Cover-Up and a Humanitas Award in 2004 for Crown Heights, which also received a Directors Guild Nomination for best family film and an NACCP award for best television movie. Kagan has directed many advocacy films and television series including West Wing. See his profiles on IMDB and Wikipedia.

Kagan has taught master classes in directing in Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, France and Israel and served as Artistic Director at the Robert Redford Sundance Institute. He is on the National Board of the Directors Guild of America and Chairperson of its Special Projects Committee, which provides cultural and educational programs for its 14,000 members. His book Directors Close Up was published by Scarecrow Press in 2006.
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