Jeremiah Birnbaum, Director of Productions

Jeremiah Birnbaum is the Co-Founder and CEO of the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking. A native New Yorker, Jeremiah has worked as a producer, editor, director and educator in film and video for over seventeen years. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Film and Philosophy from Wesleyan University and attended the filmmaking program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

As a filmmaker, Jeremiah was a founding partner of Detour Pictures, a music-video production company specializing in rap and R&B artists, and has collaborated with many accomplished filmmakers, including Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple. As an educator, he taught editing and media literacy to teenagers at the Urban League of Newark, and was Course Director of the Media Sound and Visual Program at Ex´pression College of Digital Arts, in Emeryville, CA. In addition to his duties as Course Director, Jeremiah was Director of Professional Services at Ex´pression and over the years has developed and taught many classes on the art and craft of filmmaking.

Jeremiah's recent credits include three diverse projects, two feature films and one documentary. He is executive producing "Presque Isle", an HD feature written and directed by Bay Area filmmaker Rob Nilsson and produced by the School of Digital Filmmaking. Jeremiah also directed and shot the feature-length digital film, "So Fresh, So Clean" which premiered at the 2003 San Francisco Black Film Festival and won Best Feature Film at the Motor City Film Festival. The film played at festivals, colleges and art house theaters all over the country before being released by Warner Bros. Home Video in 2005. As a documentarian, Jeremiah produced and directed "An Introduction to Multiple Sclerosis", a film for people newly diagnosed with MS. This doc was produced in collaboration with the Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology and has been distributed to hundreds of people across the country diagnosed with this complicated illness.