title: Jay Cheel
text: # Jay Cheel
  
  Jay Cheel (born c. 1979) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, editor and podcaster.
  
  ## Career
  
  He is mainly known for directing the feature-length documentary Beauty Day, and short film Cooking With Gerry – Episode #2: Poutine that premiered at the Flyway Film Festival. Since 2005, he has been co-hosting the Film Junk Podcast, which holds the Guinness World records record for longest-running movie podcast.
  
  In addition to these works, Jay has also made several others, including a viral marketing 'Mockumentary', entitled The Goblin Man of Norway. The film follow several fictitious professionals' opinions on a recent discovery of a humanoid robot, found buried in the glaciers of the arctic.
  
  Cheel has shown a keen interest in time travel, as evidenced by his first documentary Obsessed and Scientific, as well as his documentary How to Build a Time Machine. Both aim to discuss the possibility of time traveling, and introduce fact while blending together elements and examples of fictitious time travel.
  
  ## Cursed Films
  
  Cheel wrote, directed, and edited both seasons of the Shudder documentary series Cursed Films.
  
  