Jeremy Workman is the Emmy-nominated director of the documentaries LILY TOPPLES THE WORLD (Discovery), DECIDING VOTE (Oscar-shortlisted Best Documentary Short), THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET (Greenwich Entertainment / Kino Lorber), MAGICAL UNIVERSE (IFC Films), and the current 2024 festival standout SECRET MALL APARTMENT (Executive Produced by Jesse Eisenberg).

Jeremy’s documentaries have played at prestigious film festivals and been released in theaters and on TV across the globe. He has been praised for creating his own genre of uniquely cinematic character portraits that bring you deep inside extraordinary worlds.

Lily Topples The World won the Jury Grand Prize for Best Documentary at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival and soon became a high-profile acquisition by Discovery.  Executive Produced by actress Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Raya & The Last Dragon), Lily Topples The World  can now be streamed on MAX and Discovery+. Certified Fresh on RottenTomatoes, the film was also a two-time Cinema Eye Honors nominee, including for the Audience Choice Award.

The World Before Your Feet was released theatrically in nearly 100 global cities during 2019, played in theaters for nearly 6 months, and currently stands at 100% on RottenTomatoes. It was the first film EP'd by actor Jesse Eisenberg.  A special edition BluRay/DVD was released through Fox Lorber. 

Jeremy's 2023 short documentary Deciding Vote (co-directed with Rob Lyons) premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and won multiple film festival awards, before being acquired by The New Yorker for a wide release.  It was shortlisted for the 96th Academy Awards in the Documentary Short Film category and nominated for an Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Short Documentary.

Previously, Jeremy's 2014 documentary Magical Universe - about outsider artist Al Carbee - was released theatrically by IFC Films. the documentary won several film festival awards, was a Los Angeles Times “Critic's Pick” and was cited by The New York Times as "recommended watching" when it debuted on Netflix in 2015.  His debut documentary Who Is Henry Jaglom? premiered at the AFI Film Festival and was subsequently broadcast on POV, the Sundance Channel, and FilmStruck.  In 2025, it will be released on BluRay as part of a Henry Jaglom box set from Vinegar Syndrome.

Additionally, Jeremy is widely known in the indie community as the Creative Director of WHEELHOUSE CREATIVE. In this capacity, he has overseen many movie trailers, featurettes, tribute montages, and fundraising sizzles for a flurry of distributor and producer clients.   As an editor, Jeremy himself has edited nearly 100 theatrical trailers, including those for many essential indie, foreign, and documentary films of our times. Additionally, Jeremy has edited multiple Oscar montages and Lifetime Achievements tributes. He has been nom’d twice for Emmys and won multiple Key Arts and Golden Trailer Awards.

Jeremy lectures regularly about editing, cinematic storytelling, and documentary filmmaking. He has been a guest lecturer or master class speaker at Columbia University Journalism School, NYU News & Documentary School, Montclair State, SUNY Purchase, Rollins College, SVA, and is a two-time Special Visiting Guest Lecturer for ChileDoc in Santiago, Chile. Finally, Jeremy has often been invited to serve on film festival juries or moderate industry events.

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Contact: jeremy@jeremyworkman.com
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Representation: Rachel Garfield, UTA