a film by Jeremiah Hayes
Jeremiah Hayes is a critically acclaimed Canadian director, editor, and writer whose filmmaking has been recognized with a Peabody Award, a Canadian Screen Award, a Gemini Award, and two Iris Awards. Born in 1966 in Walnut Creek, California, Hayes later moved to Canada and, in 1990, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production from Concordia University in Montreal.
Hayes is best known as the co-director, co-writer, and editor of the groundbreaking documentary Reel Injun, which received the Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program in 2010. The film went on to win a prestigious Peabody Award in 2011 and was featured in the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ core exhibition, Stories of Cinema, in 2021.
He is also celebrated for his editing work on the influential documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World. The film won the Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, received Canadian Screen Awards for Best Feature Documentary and Best Documentary Editing in 2018, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary in 2020.
His most recent feature, Dear Audrey, follows filmmaker Martin Duckworth and his wife, Audrey Schirmer, through the intimate challenges of Alzheimer’s. Filmed over four years and shaped from more than 90 hours of footage, Dear Audrey has won nine international festival awards, as well as RIDM’s People’s Choice Award in 2021, and two Iris Awards for Best Documentary and Best Editing in 2023.
Hayes continues to craft documentary cinema that blends visual artistry with human insight, contributing to the broader landscape of documentary storytelling.
