Matti Leshem

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Matti Leshem is an American film and TV producer.

Leshem is the co-founder of New Mandate Films, an American film and television production company focused on Jewish history and literature. [1]

He is the son of Moshe Leshem, who was Israel's ambassador to Zaire and Denmark, and Alyssa Leshem of Boca Raton, Florida, who was a skin-care specialist there. [2]

Lesham earned a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College, and a master’s degree in directing from the American Film Institute. [2]

In 2014, with his wife Lynn Harris, he co-founded Weimaraner Republic Pictures, a film, TV and digital production company. [3]

He was a producer on the Barry Levinson 2021 film, The Survivor , along with business partner and friend Joel Greenberg, who was an executive producer. [4]

Lesham created Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints , an eight-part docudrama TV series, with Martin Scorsese narrating the lives of eight Christian saints, and Lesham producing. [5]

In 2009, Leshem, then a "marketing executive" married Lynn Harris, a film executive, at the Parker Palm Springs hotel in Palm Springs, California, with Rabbi Sharon Brous officiating. [2] In November 2023 in Los Angeles, they hosted a delegation of Israeli survivors of the Hamas terrorist attacks and families of the hostages being held in Gaza. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Matti Leshem". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "Lynn Harris, Matti Leshem". The New York Times. April 4, 2009. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved January 18, 2025.
  3. ↑ Fleming, Mike Jr. (October 2, 2014). "Ex-WB Exec Lynn Harris Launches Weimaraner With Husband Matti Leshem". Deadline. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
  4. ↑ "'The Survivor': The long road to bring Harry Haft's story to the screen". The Jerusalem Post . April 28, 2022. ISSN   0792-822X . Retrieved January 18, 2025.
  5. ↑ Lobell, Kylie Ora (November 26, 2024). "Israeli Producer Matti Leshem Teams Up with Martin Scorsese to Create "The Saints" on Fox Nation". Jewish Journal. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
  6. ↑ Goodyear, Dana (November 11, 2023). "L.A. Hosts a Delegation of Survivors from Israel and Families of Hostages". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved January 18, 2025.
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