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Jeff recently received the Directors Guild of Canada 2013 Best TV Movie Award for his MOW “Jack”, the life story of Jack Layton, the leader of the New Democratic Party who passed away tragically in 2011 only months after leading his party to a historic victory. The movie was nominated in several other categories including Best Director.

He recently returned from Ireland where he directed two episodes of “Vikings”, the History Channel series currently wrapping its second season. Earlier in 2013 he directed “Perception” for ABC Studios and TNT and also “Saving Hope” for E1 and CTV.

Jeff directed the pilot and three episodes of the BBC America/Showcase series, “Copper”, for executive producers Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana.

His 2011 miniseries sequel “Wrath Of Grapes: The Don Cherry Story II” performed extremely well for the network and garnered two nominations including Best Director in the 2012 Directors Guild of Canada awards.

The original 4 hour miniseries “Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story” received two wins at the 2010 Directors Guild of Canada Awards: Best Miniseries & Best Sound Editing. It also won in two categories at the 2010 Gemini Awards: Best Actor & Best Cinematography. In all, it garnered some 12 nominations in these National competitions.

Another of his long form titles, “Celine”, received 3 Gemini nominations in 2009: Best TV Movie, Best Screenplay and it won Best Actress.

Jeff continues to work in prime time television series. Credits include “Bones”, “Supernatural”, “The Vampire Diaries”, “NCIS”, “V”, “Battlestar Galactica”, “Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles”, “CSI” and “Being Erica”.

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