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Jeremy Lutter Measuring in at a height of six feet seven inches tall, Jeremy understands the benefit of standing out in a crowd. Jeremy is a genre filmmaker who loves stories of robots, monsters, and worlds of the fantastic, that tell heartfelt stories of conflict and compassion. He has screened work and won awards all over the globe and is known for his unique visual style and creative character design. He most recently pitched the prestigious Frontieres Market in Montreal with a monster film about addiction called We Came From the Sea. Jeremy’s directing career started because of an accident. In 2008, he was attending a film festival in the Okanagan where he was involved in a serious motor vehicle crash. Jeremy's taxi was struck by a drunk driver in an SUV. The taxi driver was killed on impact and Jeremy was rushed to hospital in an ambulance where paramedics told him, "You're lucky to be alive." This near death experience had a huge effect on Jeremy. The bones in his left hand had shattered needing to be rebuilt in surgery. The bones healed but his outlook on life was forever changed. He has made the most of every day since the car accident and made his goal of being a film director the top priority. Don’t wait to follow your dreams because life could be shorter than you think. In 2010, he pitched in front of an audience of two hundred people and three judges at the Whistler Film Festival, winning his first film grant called MPPIA to make a narrative short film called Joanna Makes a Friend. It was a huge success and won several awards including the audience choice award at TIFF Kids. His films have screened all over the world including Toronto, London, New York, Busan, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, Portland, Sonoma, Madagascar, and Dubai. He loves well made genre films and has been champion of film and television as art forms of telling original stories that are currently being lost in a sea of remakes and sequels. He takes inspiration from the iconic Canadian director David Cronenberg for use of practical effects, story telling, and a wide breadth of work. Jeremy's debut feature film, The Hollow Child, was made with the support of Telefilm Canada, has been an international success, winning awards around the world. The horror film won Best Female Performance twice. First at the Leo Awards (Oscar style awards show in Canada) and then again at its European premiere in Portugal. The film won the grand prize at Feratum Film Festival in Mexico and was nominated for best director and best picture in Las Cruces New Mexico USA. As a director, he has been awarded funding or worked with Bell Media, The Movie Network, Amazon Studies, Telefilm Canada, Knowledge Network, the Harold Greenberg Fund, the National Screen Institute, Canada Council for the Arts, and the BC Arts Council. His filmography has brought to life a robot best friend, a vicious changeling, and a monster brother to name a few. Jeremy considers himself a storyteller above all else.
Awards: * Sonoma Film Festival - 2019 Winner Audience Award Best Dramatic Short – "Giltrude's Dwelling"
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