Student Academy Award nominated director.
TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE, Jeremy's first feature film, played in Rotterdam's 2013 Bright Future section and had its US premiere at the SF Int'l Film Festival.
“[Jeremy
Teicher's] debut is smart, rhythmic… with a great soundtrack,
impressive cutting and an ending that is courageous and true… He’s a director to watch." Brandon Harris, Filmmaker Magazine
“Few things excite me more than when a young filmmaker finds his voice early, and Teicher’s staggering potential shines bright like the sun in Baobab” Bernard Boo, WayTooIndie. See Bernard’s follow-up interview with Jeremy here.
Screen International Interview: "New York-based film-maker Jeremy Teicher talks about his Senegal-set Tall As The Baobab Tree."
TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE is “a moving story [about two sisters] but also about the power of education and its life-changing consequences."
BBC World Service features TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE and WAR WITCH at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London. [Video opens in a new page]
Jeremy Teicher’s documentary nominated for a 2011 Student Academy Award.
"This Is Us" selected as finalist in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences’ 38th Annual Student Academy Awards competition.
BBC Filmclub: Trondheim Int'l Film Festival: Val de Marine (Festival Ciné Junior, Paris):