Welcome to Jeremy Weiss Films
My Creative Portfolio & Adventures in Film Shared With You
About me
Jeremy Martin Weiss is an award-winning filmmaker who loves filmmaking, storytelling, entertaining and making people laugh. His last film Riff Raf, about a jazz musician who accidentally ends up in a classical orchestra, won the Lou Costello Award for Best Comedy Short at the 12th Annual Garden State Film Festival in Atlantic City, NJ and the Special Jury Mention Award at the Boston Student Film Festival. Recently Catherine Clinch, reporter for Studio System News, picked up Riff Raf and featured Jeremy in an article titled, “Five Directors To Discover Online.” Jeremy’s resume includes shadowing directors on NBC, CBS and Hallmark.
Jeremy has been working in the exciting world of Hollywood ever since he graduating from Emerson College. Since moving to Los Angeles he has been working in the camera department side by side with talented directors and directors of photography. He’s filmed features, half-hour sitcoms, reality TV, commercials, sports and corporate videos. His first gig was with the YES Network as a camera operator on two TV shows featuring the New York Yankees and New York Football Giants. More recently, he has been working camera for Hallmark Channel, Lifetime and Pixl TV. This past summer he traveled all over North America as part of Discovery Channel’s Gold Rush, which was a thrilling adventure!
Films
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In the News and Reviews
“Director Jeremy Weiss, of the Jazz film Riff Raff, had great tastes and exactly what a Director needs to have, a wide variety of multiple topics…Riff Raf is a beautifully shot black and white film with a story as simple (and complex) as Jazz itself.” excerpt from Influx Magazine
“It’s not going to take long for the industry to discover the potential of this latest Weiss’ skills. His short film, “Riff Raf” is a heady adventure…it’s definitely enough of an opportunity to glimpse his potential.” excerpt from Five Directors to Discover Online Studio System News
Resume & Credits
Feature Film Credits
- Happily Never After
- The Big Grab
- Diagnosis Delicious
- A Moving Romance
- Advance and Retreat
- Prodigal Daughter
- When Duty Calls
- The Right Girl
- Reluctant Nanny
- Forrest Cove
- Mr. PTA
Television Credits
- Gold Rush season 8 (pre-production)
- Gold Rush season 7
- ESL English as a Second Language
- Yankees Ultimate Road Trip
- Giants on Deck
- Night of too Many Stars hosted by Jon Stewart
- Face Off season 3
- Hot Set season 1
Additional Credits
- Anti-Social – Webseries
- Anderson Silva, LLC. – Commercial
- Doc Rivers, AOL Inspired To – Webseries
- Lisa Ling, AOL Inspired To – Webseries
- Harlem Globetrotters Courtside Camera – Sports broadcasting
- NCAA Division 1 Football – Sports broadcasting
- Minor League Baseball – Sports broadcasting
- NCAA Division 1 Basketball – Sports broadcasting
- KISS Forever Concert – Live Music Event
Adventures in Film
Photo Gallery from my Set Life
Running camera on set
Carter (left) and me looking tough on Gold Rush
Filming a feature film on the back lot
Filmming Anderson Silva commercial at Silva’s gym
Beautiful view on location near Long Beach
The Riff Raf orchestra
Driving sequence on the jib
Finding Gold on Discovery Channel’s Gold Rush
Camera team is set, two cameras
In between takes, sun setting beautifully, Red Dragon on dolly
Feature film INT. OFFICE – DAY
Prepping Red Dragon at Otto
Back lot on a hot summer day
Red Epic, cafeteria scene
Saturday shoot, camera on tracks
Staging between scenes, as always camera is ready with plenty of time to spare 🙂
Busy office scene
Filming with BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed Studios
Filming classroom scene, two cameras
Good friend, Billy, and I taking shelter from down pouring rain while filming Gold Rush
Leaving the Yukon and Gold Rush after great season of filming
Rehearsals up
Outdoor exteriors lots of dolly track and jib
That time I met Will Ferrell’s twin bother while on Gold Rush
Filming on the river in Dawson City
The highest point I’ve ever brought a jib, top of Mt. Baldy
Prepping drones to film title sequence of TV show
My camera on the jib reminds me of a medieval jouster
Red Epic ready to roll
Night exteriors, the generator didn’t go down once!
Art Dept. brought Micky Mouse Waffle Iron to set…the crew was never happier
Jib flying high while B-Cam rides the rails
Beautiful exterior lighting by our DoP
At Panavision prepping for another feature film
B-Cam field trip day, out filming quick pops around the valley
On the backlot waiting for night
Gaffer, grips and electrics prep the new scene
Two cameras on the soundstage
My camera on a slider and on tracks
Not a bad view for a work day 🙂
Exterior night shooting, those four lights in the sky were not happy about working late into the night as they kept shutting off during our takes
Love the sun sets in SoCal
Filming in a wine vineyard
Having fun on set behind the camera
Group shot of the camera team
Talking about it…
Readying an over head shot here, I felt sorry for my AC who couldn’t use the monitor on this shot
Watching Back to the Future by a camp fire after great day on Gold Rush
Scouting for the best place to put the jib
Back stage
Camera prep day
Filming at a country club
Red
Blocking, making sure everything works in the scene
Lighting the scene before shooting
Moving camera on the backlot
Marker!
Unicorns on the eyebrow, always something new on camera
Marker! Behind the scenes while my camera wasn’t playing
Red Epic on the jib while we were shooting in a park
Grips and electrics are busy building for the turn around
Backlot with the jib
One of my meetings at CBS Studio Center, I love going to this place
Outside the soundstage for the 9-9
Filming Riff Raf at the Hanover Theater
Raf is called on to solo
Between shots on ESL
Camera team gets photobombed by production
Filming ESL, a sitcom pilot
Staging area before day 1 of ESL
Back stage on the sound stage
Night shooting two cameras
Camera is set
Video village
Camera operating here with the New York Giants, I’m on the left
What’s New
New film Balloons in development
Balloons is a comedy about Lawrence, an entitled MBA graduate who is entering the work force and thinks he can do anything. But he is given a… Read more “New film Balloons in development”
Riff Raf wins Lou Costello Award
Riff Raf the movie, a short lighthearted film about a jazz trumpeter who accidentally ends up in a classical orchestra, won the Lou Costello Award for Best Comedy… Read more “Riff Raf wins Lou Costello Award”
Riff Raf plays Atlantic City this Saturday!
Have you snagged your tickets yet? Riff Raf the movie is making its NJ premier this Saturday at the Resorts Hotel & Casino Superstar Theater in Atlantic… Read more “Riff Raf plays Atlantic City this Saturday!”
