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Jeremiah Hayes is a Canadian Screen Award, an Iris Award, and a Gemini Award winning director, editor, and writer whose filmmaking is honoured by a prestigious Peabody Award. He is most noted as co-director, co-writer and the editor of the film Reel Injun, for which he won the Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program at the 25th Gemini Awards in 2010. Hayes is also recognized for his work editing Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing in a Documentary at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018. Reel Injun went on to win a Peabody Award for Best Electronic Media in 2011 and Rumble won the Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling at Sundance Film Festival in 2017. In 2020, Rumble received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. In 2021, Reel Injun is featured in the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures core exhibition of the Stories of Cinema.
In 2021 Jeremiah released Dear Audrey, a feature documentary which he shot, directed, edited, wrote and produced. In 2021, Dear Audrey won the People's Choice Award at the Montreal International Documentary Festival, and the Iris Award for Best Feature Documentary in 2023. Dear Audrey was also awarded with Le Cercle d'or for Best Feature Documentary at the Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke 2022, the Dr. Sydney K. Shapiro Humanitarian Award at the Phoenix Film Festival 2022, Best Feature Documentary Award at the Indy Film Fest 2022, The Silver Award for Best Feature Documentary at the Tokyo Film Awards 2022, The Grand Prix Documentary Award at the Rising Sun International Film Festival 2022, The Best Editing of a Documentary Award at the Madrid International Film Festival 2022, The Excellence in Editing Award at the Docs Without Borders Film Festival 2022, the Best Editing Award at the Brussels World Film Festival 2022, and a Best Canadian Documentary Nomination at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2023. Also in 2023, Dear Audrey was nominated for three Canadian Screen Awards, won two of Quebec Cinema's Iris Awards for Best Documentary and Best Editing, and was nominated for a Prix Gémeaux for Best Documentary Program in 2024.
As a director, his other credits include the films Elefanti (1989), Silence & Storm (1995), God Comes As a Child (1998), and The Prom (1998).
His other credits as an editor include such films as Tia & Piujuq (2018), Above the Drowning Sea (2017), Sol (2014), The Wolverine: The Fight of the James Bay Cree (2014), Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women (2013), The Last Explorer (2009), Inside the Great Magazines (2007), Vendetta Song (2005), and Unbreakable Minds (2004).
