Jeremy Joseph DeCeglie, a writer and filmmaker from Fremantle, Western Australia, was born around 1981. His literary career began with the independently published novella "the sea is not yet full" in 2005, which was followed by the short story collection "In the Same Streets You'll Wander Endlessly" in 2008.
DeCeglie's next literary work was the philosophical poker novel "Damned Good", published by Fontaine Press in 2010, which was named Australia's first poker novel by Poker News. In the same year, his novella "Ennui and Despair" was published by Olympia Press, while his neo-noir novel "Drawing Dead" was independently published in 2011 and re-issued by Fahrenheit Press in 2017.
DeCeglie's film career began with his first feature film "Jugular", which premiered at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in 2013, where it won Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actor (Gregory Pakis). The film was shot with a one-man crew in Melbourne and had a budget of around $6000. It also screened at MonsterFest later that year.
His second feature film, the comedy "Can't Win. Do Try", premiered at CineFestOz in 2016. The film won Best Director and Best Actor (Matt Furlani) at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in 2017 and also screened at the Madrid International Film Festival, where Adriane Daff was nominated for Best Actress.
