Jeremy Todd Shinder

JEREMY TODD SHINDER is a multi-faceted entertainer with a B.F.A. in Film from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. In his junior year at SU, Jeremy dove headfirst into the realm of creative entrepreneurship when he joined the university’s Blackstone LaunchPad. He participated in business competitions (wins: 2022 IDEAS Competition, 2023 iPrize Competition, 2023 HBW Foundation ‘Spirit of Entrepreneurship’ Award) and received an Innovation Fund Grant for his production company, Jere Bear Films, to become an LLC. Throughout his college career, he has directed/written/produced three shorts – The Musical Magician (2021), Our Home in Hillel (2022), and Weightlisted (2022) – that had extremely successful festival runs, earning multiple domestic and international awards for Best Short Film, Best Student Film, Best Documentary Short, Best Actor, and Best Director. Jeremy most recently produced a large-scale stop-motion animation, Goldy: An Unbearably Tragic Tale (2023), that expects a fall 2023 festival run. Jeremy is now in pre-production for his undergraduate thesis film, Theo’s Tears (2024), which will begin principal photography this October 2023. In addition to his filmmaking escalates, Jeremy has been a professional actor since age four; featured credits include... Broadway: A Christmas Story: The Musical (Flick [OBC]), The 2013 TONY Awards (Himself, with ACS); Off-Broadway: Big: The Musical (Billy), Runaways ([City Center/Public Theater]); International Tour: The Addams Family (Pugsley); Film: The Mermaid (Kevin), Drunk Parents (Trey), Going in Style (Ezra); Television: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Timmy Jenkins), Louie (Never Cartesian); Regional: Noises Off (Lloyd Dallas), Something Rotten! (Nick Bottom).

Jeremy is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. He is the founder/owner of the production company Jere Bear Films.