Teddy Leifer

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Teddy Leifer is a British film and television producer. [1] He founded Rise Films in 2006, a London-based production company, [2] and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2023. [3]

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He has produced a number of films and television programmes, including The Invisible War, Icarus, All That Breathes, The Interrupters, Dreamcatcher, We Are Together, Rough Aunties, Mayor, The Art of Political Murder , George Carlin's American Dream and Plebs .

He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, [4] BAFTA and the Producers Guild of America.

Career

Leifer’s career began in 2006 with We Are Together, a documentary about the orphanage, Agape, in South Africa, which won the Special Jury Prize and Audience Award at Tribeca Film Festival. [5]

He then produced Rough Aunties, his first collaboration with director Kim Longinotto, which won the Grand Jury Prize in the 'World Cinema — Documentary' category at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. [6] In 2013, as part of a publicly-voted list produced by the Hospital Club, The Guardian Culture Professionals Network listed Leifer in the "100 most innovative and influential people in British creative and media industries". [7]

He later produced Longinotto’s Dreamcatcher in 2015, which went on to win Sundance’s World Cinema Directing Award. [8]

Leifer was the executive producer of Academy Award-winning documentary Icarus in 2017, [9] and Mayor in 2020, which won an Emmy. [10] He also produced Dror Moreh’s The Human Factor, about the United States’ 30-year effort to bring peace to the Middle East.

In 2022, he produced All That Breathes , directed by Shaunak Sen - the first film to have won both the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival. [11] The film subsequently received BAFTA [12] and Oscar nominations for Best Documentary [13]

Other productions include George Carlin’s American Dream , a two-part documentary directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio which won the 2022 Emmy for Outstanding Documentary [14] and Once Upon A Time In Londongrad, [15] a political thriller about 14 mysterious UK deaths with alleged Russian links.

Leifer also produced Roman sitcom Plebs , which was the most-watched show in ITV2’s history. [16] The series ended after five seasons with a feature-length special [17] released in 2022.

Filmography

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