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Jeremiah Sayys

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Overview

  • Born
    February 2, 1983 · Gadsden, Alabama, USA
  • Died
    February 16, 2020 · Alabama, USA (pancreatic cancer)
  • Height
    1.78 m

Biography

    • Jeremiah was born and raised in Gadsden, Alabama. Growing up, movies were a huge part of his life, and his fascination with acting and filmmaking only grew over time. Faced with life in a small town where acting wasn't taken very seriously, Jeremiah did what most small town kids with stars in their eyes do: he turned to sports. He found that the pursuit of excellence in football and baseball became a short-term substitute for his real passion. After graduating high school, he inherited a sum of money, and chose not to pursue sports in a post-secondary school. Instead, he attended a nearby junior college, majored in English and took an acting class. He studied for two years and got up the nerve to move to California. To do this, he needed to sell his four month old house and all of his belongings. He arrived in Los Angeles in February of 2004.

      Once in Los Angeles, he dove into the most accessible programs he could find. He studied acting at the New York Film Academy at Universal Studios, where the directing bug bit him hard. He became consumed with the directing process and closely observed the directing students when they went to the Universal Lot to shoot short films. He also trained at the Century Playhouse in the Meisner Technique. Later he trained privately in the Stanislavski Method Technique. Throughout all of his acting training, he continued to teach himself about directing. Studying and analyzing the films of directors Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, David Fincher, David Lynch among others.

      Tough lessons were learned, while trying to get his acting career started, after many auditions and initial ventures led nowhere fast. Jeremiah then decided to showcase his own stories and visionary tales. Screenwriting became the next stage in his journey. He read many professional screenplays and started putting his own ideas into script form. Self-taught and disciplined, Jeremiah has utilized books, videos, online courses to hone his craft and as a member of Film Independent, has attended many events, seminars and lectures. He has many projects in development and has stepped behind the camera to focus more on writing, directing and producing.
      - IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

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  • Auditioned for "The Midnight Meat Train".
  • Palmdale, CA, USA: Wrapped his first feature film directing effort, "Of Silence".
  • Financed and starred in a short film titled "The Nameless", which was suppose to be used to pitch a Sci-Fi Trilogy, but not enough footage was shot and the film was never completed.
  • Was attached to play the lead character in a film titled "Absolute Tangerine", but two weeks before filming was to begin, the production shut down.
  • Has a dog named Bailey, who is half beagle and half pit bull, that lives with his brother back in Alabama.

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  • I love stories that revolve around one or two characters. It's more intimate and makes the character(s) more engaging.

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