Jeremy Kagan

I am a film and television director of many award winning movies and television shows; winning first prizes at various world renown film festivals, the Emmys, a Cable Ace, and a Golden Globe nomination (see bio below). I am also a full tenured professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California and founder of The Change Making Media Lab (www.cmml.usc).

I have recently published an ebook with 150 of my illustrations about my near death experience. Entitled MY DEATH: A Personal Guidebook, this book recounts my unexpected journey beyond and back; affirming that death is not the end of consciousness. I want to spread the word about this ebook as I know it can help people deal with the end we often fear. This website - www.theneardeathandlifeofjeremykagan.com - has a 5 minute TEDx type video where I talk about my experience.

So, more info: Jeremy Kagan is an internationally recognized director/writer/producer of feature films and television and a tenured professor. Some of his feature credits include the box-office hits HEROES, the political thriller THE BIG FIX, THE CHOSEN (2 time Grand Prize winner),and THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN (Gold Prize Moscow Film Festival). Among his many television shows are KATHERINE: the Making of an American Revolutionary and HBO's CONSPIRACY: THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 8 (ACE Award for Best Dramatic Special). His film ROSWELL,THE UFO Cover UP garnered a Golden Globe nomination and he directed the pilot for the hit series DR. QUINN: MEDICINE WOMAN. Other television films include, for Showtime COLOR OF JUSTICE about racism and BOBBIE'S GIRL about a lesbian couple and CROWN HEIGHTS about the 1991 riots which won the Humanitas Award for "affirming the dignity of every person." Kagan has won an EMMY for Dramatic Series Directing and directed "West Wing" and Spielberg's "Taken." He has made films for The Doe Fund which is the most successful program in America helping the homeless and for The Bioneers which organizes leaders in ecology and social justice. Professor Kagan teaches graduate courses at USC in directing and has created the Change Making Media Lab which has made projects on cancer prevention, obesity and ADHD ( www.cmml.usc.edu). Kagan has served as the Artistic Director of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and on the National Board of the Directors Guild and is Chairperson of its Special Projects that provide cultural and educational events for the 15,000 members. He is author of DIRECTORS CLOSE UP, vol. 1 and vol. 2 . A Graduate Fellow of the American Film Institute, he has an M.F.A. from NYU and a B.A. from Harvard University. He has taught master seminars on filmmaking in Hong Kong, Hamburg, Hanoi, France, Lebanon, Israel, Ireland and India.