Jeremy Kagan, M.F.A.

Professor

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LUC 303E

Jeremy Kagan is a director, writer and producer of feature films and television, including the 2006 ten part series The ACLU Freedom Files. He teaches intermediate directing as well as how to developing the advanced project at USC.

In television, Kagan was honored with an Emmy for Outstanding Series Directing and a Cable ACE Award for HBO's Conspiracy: The Trial Of The Chicago 8, and a Humanitas Award in 2004 for Crown Heights, which also received a Directors Guild Nomination for best family film. His features include The Chosen (Grand Prix Montreal Festival, Christopher Award), the box-office hit Heroes (1977), the political thriller The Big Fix (1978), The Journey of Natty Gann (1985, Gold Prize at the Moscow Film Festival) and the comedy Big Man on Campus (1989).

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 where he is presently a creative adviser. 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 14,000 members.