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Welcome to Jeremy Dehn dot com. I am an award-winning filmmaker whose work has screened on five continents, a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, and an adjunct professor of film and video production at the University of Denver, the Art Institute of Colorado and at the University of Colorado at Denver.

This website contains information on my own projects, as well as on my availability for a variety of film and video production work. Please have a look around and contact me for further info…

NEWS:

10/8/10: PUBLISHED! An article I wrote on federal higher education policy will appear in the New York Times op ed section on Monday, October 11.

9/27/10: DISTRIBUTION! Miracle Investigators will be featured on the Short Film compilation DVD Why?, a collection of 8 films and picked by DC Shorts Film Festival founder Jon Gann. Jon will be touring colleges across the country with "Angry Filmmaker" Kelley Baker, and they'll use (and sell) the DVD to demonstate shorts that are successful festival films. PLUS, keep an eye here for more distribution news coming hopefully very soon...

9/26/10: SCREENING! Once more to the Big Apple: Miracle Investigators will play the New York United Film Festival, Oct 22-28.

8/26/10: SCREENING! the Williamsburg International Film Festival has invited Miracle Investigators to screen, September 23-26 in New York City, our 35th festival screening!

8/12/10: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators has received an invitation to the Philadelphia Film and Music Festival, in Philadelphia, PA, Sept 23-26.

8/11/10: SCREENING! Another United Film Fest. Miracle Investigators will play the Chicago United Film Festival in of course Chicago, IL, Sept 10-16.

7/21/10: AWARD! Miracle Investigators took 2nd place in the juried Indie Comedic Short Film competition at the Plymouth Rock Comedy Festival. Congratulations to cast and crew!

7/7/10: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators has been invited to the Prescott Film Festival in Prescott, AZ, this August 6-8.

6/30/10: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators has been invited to play the Plymouth Rock Comedy Festival in Plymouth, MA, July 3-10.

6/21/10: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators will play at the Tulsa United Film Festival in Tulsa, OK, July 29-Aug 2.

5/21/10: SCREENING! the San Francisco United Film Festival has invited Miracle Investigators to play, June 11-17 in San Francisco, CA.

4/16/10: SCREENING! Back to the City of Angels: Miracle Investigators has been invited to screen at the Los Angeles Comedy Festival, May 6-23.

4/5/10: AWARD! Miracle Investigators was honored to take home one of the "Best of Faux" audience awards this past weekend at Portland's Faux Film Festival.

3/11/10: SCREENING! Not quite hometown, but close. Miracle Investigators will play at the Indie Spirit Film Festival in Colorado Springs on April 23-25.

2/23/10: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators will be screening at the Faux Film Festival in Portland, OR, on the weekend of April 2-4, 2010.

2/16/10: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators has been invited to screen at the Nashville Film Festival, April 15-22.

2/2/10: AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE! Miracle Investigators will play the Byron Bay Film Festival March 5-13 in Byron Bay, Australia.

1/08/10: PRAISE BE TO MIRACLE INVESTIGATORS! We received a shout out in the Denver Post's "Best Bets" for upcoming film events. Post critic Lisa Kennedy called us "Absurdly fun," and part of a "divine" mix of films at the Festivus Film Festival.

12/22/09: HOMETOWN PREMIERE! Miracle Investigators is finally coming to Denver, CO, playing as an opening night selection at the Festivus Film Festival on Thursday, January 14. Jeremy and star John Hoff will attend in person.

11/18/09: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators will play at the Trail Dance Film Festival in Duncan, OK, January 22-24.

11/26/09: PRAISE BE TO MIRACLE INVESTIGATORS! I was particularly excited to meet Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant at the Friars Club Comedy Film Festival this weekend. Garant was a judge for the festival, and he called our film, "Really funny... a high point." I've been watching Garant and Lennon since they were members of the brilliant sketch comedy troupe, The State, so I was very gratified to hear such kind words from people whose work I've admired for so long.

9/10/09: SCREENING! We're thrilled to be about to make our NYC premiere at the Friars Club Comedy Film Festival September 24-27. Jeremy will attend in person.

9/05/09: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators has been invited to screen at the Bend Film Festival in Bend, OR, October 8-11.

9/01/09: PRAISE BE TO MIRACLE INVESTIGATORS! Congratulations to the cast and crew for another very positive review, this one from one of the screeners at the Festivus Film Festival. Check out the video review here.

7/29/09: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators has been invited to screen at the SoCal Independent Film Festival in Huntington Beach, CA, September 14-23.

7/14/09: PRAISE BE TO MIRACLE INVESTIGATORS! We just picked up a bit of buzz in the latest issue of MovieMaker Magazine. A reviewer who saw us earlier this year at the L.A. Comedy Shorts Festival called the film "Brilliant"!

6/26/09: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators will play at the DC Shorts Film Festival in Washington DC on Thursday Sept. 10 and Saturday, September 12.

4/19/09: SCREENING! "Miracle Investigators" will be more than OK to play at the deadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City, OK, June 10-14, 2009.

4/11/09: SCREENING! "Miracle Investigators" has been invited to screen at the Little Rock Film Festival in Little Rock, Arkansas. We'll play once on Friday May 15 at 8:45pm and again on Saturday May 16 at 3:30pm.

3/19/09: SCREENING! "Miracle Investigators" is heading to Europe again to play the 11/22 International Comedy Short Film Festival June 16-20 in Vienna, Austria.

3/8/09: PRAISE BE TO MIRACLE INVESTIGATORS! Got the good word on our film from Gary Anthony Williams, current artistic director of the L.A Comedy Shorts Film Festival and an actor you'll recognize from Malcolm in the Middle, Reno 911! and Desperate Housewives. Gary had this to say about Miracle Investigators: "A f**king funny film... good stuff!"

2/10/09: SCREENING! "Miracle Investigators" will make its Canada premiere at the World of Comedy Film Festival in Toronto on Friday Feb 27, 2009.

2/9/09: PRAISE BE TO MIRACLE INVESTIGATORS! We've been reviewed by the DC Shorts Film Festival Blog. Would Dominic and Justin agree with these findings?

2/5/09: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators has been invited to play Method Fest in Calabasas, CA, March 26 - April 2. Method Fest is a festival dedicated to great performances, so a particular congratulations to the Miracle Investigators cast for landing this one.

2/3/09: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators is heading toward the Arctic Circle to play the Dawson City International Short Film Festival, April 9-12 in Dawson City, Canada.

2/1/09: SCREENING! "Miracle Investigators" will make its Colorado premiere at the Vail Film Festival in Vail, CO, also on April 5-8, 2009.

1/27/09: SCREENING! "Miracle Investigators" has been invited to the L.A. Comedy Shorts Festival on March 5-8, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA.

1/26/09: SCREENING! "Miracle Investigators" will be shown at the Southeast New England Film, Music, and Arts Festival, April 2-5 in Providence, RI.

1/8/09: SCREENING! "The Grayed Escape" has been invited to screen at the Beloit International Film Festival in Beloit, WI on the weekend of Feb 19-22.

1/1/09: SCREENING! "The Grayed Escape" will play at the Dam Short Film Festival in Boulder City, NV on Feb 11--only a few minutes from Las Vegas.

12/15/08: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators will play in the Show Off Your Shorts Film Festival on Saturday Feb 7 in Beverly Hills, CA.

11/19/08: AWARD! "The Grayed Escape" won Best Student Film at the Rockport Film Festival.

10/30/08: AWARD! Miracle Investigators won the Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival. Congratulations to the cast and crew for another one!

10/9/08: SCREENING! Miracle Investigators will play in the French Quarter at the Big Easy Shorts Festival in New Orleans on Sunday, November 16 at 1:30 pm.

10/5/08: AWARD! We just got word that Miracle Investigators won an Audience Choice Award last month at the Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival.

SCREENING! "The Grayed Escape" has been invited to screen at the Flint Film Festival in Flint, MI. We're programmed on Sat, Oct 18, 2008.

10/3/08: INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE! Miracle Investigators has been accepted into the WT Os International Film Festival in Os, Norway, November 5-9, 2008.

10/1/08: AWARD! Miracle Investigators won an audience award at the Cinema City International Film Festival, on Wednesday, October 1, 2008.

SCREENING! "The Grayed Escape" will play the Rockport Film Festival in Rockport, TX Nov 6- 8, 2008.

9/24/08: MIRACLE SIGHTING! We received a (very brief) shout out in the Los Angeles Business Journal for our appearance at the Cinema City International Film Festival - not so much a review as an acknowledgement that we exist, but we'll take whatever fleeting apparitions we can get.

9/23/08: AWARD! -- Miracle Investigators won Best Overall Film in the student division at the Daytona Beach Film Festival! Congratulations to the entire cast and crew!

9/22/08: SCREENING! -- The Grayed Escape will play this weekend at the Independence Film Festival in Pueblo, CO---noon at the Sangre De Cristo Arts Center Children's Theater. Pueblo? That's Jeremy's home town!

SCREENING UPDATE! - Dates and times for the Austin Film Festival are official. We'll screen on Thursday, October 16 at 10pm at the Hideout, and then again on Sunday Oct 19 at the Ritz. Hope to see you there!

9/10/08: SCRFEENING! -- The Grayed Escape has been invited to screen at the Tacoma Film Festival, and will play on both Oct 4 and Oct. 8.

9/9/08: SITE UPDATE! -- A new trailer for Miracle Investigators is now available online. Click here to play through the official Miracle Investigators site, or here to watch on Youtube.

9/8/08: SCREENING! -- Miracle Investigators is going back to Texas as a featured short at the Austin Film Festival, Oct. 16-23, 2008. Precise dates will be coming soon.

9/7/08: SCREENINGS! PLURAL, WITH AN "S" -- Don't ask me how this happened, but both The Grayed Escape and Miracle Investigators have been invited to play at the Daytona Beach Film Festival in Daytona Beach, FL, Sept. 18-21, 2008.

9/1/08: SCREENING! -- Miracle Investigators has been officially invited to screen at the Cinema City International Film Festival in Hollywood, CA on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008.

8/22/08: PRAISE BE TO MIRACLE INVESTIGATORS-- No official word yet on whether we've been accepted to the Cinema City International Film Festival, but I'm optimistic--Suzanne DeLaurentiis, a producer and the director of the fest called me personally to tell me how much she enjoyed our screener: "Hilarious... It's such an original idea. I've never seen anything like it." She went on to express surprise that such a well-made film could have been created by a student crew. Congrats to the cast and crew for earning such compliments!

8/17/08: SCREENING! -- "Miracle Investigators" has been accepted to the Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival, Sept 12-14.

6/12/08: PREMIERE! -- "Miracle Investigators" will make its debut at the Rome International Film Festival on Saturday, Sept 6.

5/18/08: screening-- "The Grayed Escape" will play as part of the Long Island International Film Expo in Bellmore, NY on Monday, July 14 at 2pm.

4/7/08: screening-- "The Grayed Escape" will be on the big screen during the Delray Beach Film Festival, May 6-11 in Delray Beach, Florida.

3/7/08: screening-- escape to the Pacific to see "The Grayed Escape" at The Big Island Film Festival in Waikoloa, Hawaii.

3/4/08: award-- We just got word that "The Grayed Escape" won 2nd place in the intrernational division at The Short Film Festival of India, where we played in late January. Congratulations to the cast and crew!

2/15/07: screening-- see "The Grayed Escape" - March 6 at The Foursite Film Festival in Ogden, Utah.

12/17/07: upcoming screenings-- see "The Grayed Escape" - Jan 11 & 12 at the Trail Dance Film Festival in Duncan, OK. We've been nominated for "Best Comedy" here, so please give us your vote!

And at The Short Film Festival of India Jan 10-11 in Chennai, India and Jan 30-31 in Guwahati, India

Oct 2007: upcoming screenings -- We're making our African premiere: Tue Oct 16 you can see "The Grayed Escape" at the Golden Lion Film Festival in Mbabne, Swaziland, if you happen to be in the neighborhood

Stateside "GE" isplaying at the Big Easy Shorts Festival on Sun Nov 18 in New Orleans.

Sept 2007: upcoming screening -- We're Crossing borders: "The Grayed Escape" will play in Toronto, Canada at the Indie Can Film Festival on Friday, Oct 5

August 2007: announcing the World Premiere of "The Grayed Escape." Catch the film at the Chicago International Reel Shorts Film Festival on Fri Sept 21.