Teddy Leifer Explained

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]

He has produced a number of films and television programmes, including The Invisible War, Icarus, the Peabody Award-winning documentary All That Breathes,[4] 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,[5] 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.[6]

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.[7] 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".[8] At the 84th awards ceremony, All That Breathes won a Peabody Award for "its graceful portrait of empathy and interconnectivity between nature and man."[9]

He later produced Longinotto’s Dreamcatcher in 2015, which went on to win Sundance’s World Cinema Directing Award.[10]

Leifer was the executive producer of Academy Award-winning documentary Icarus in 2017,[11] and Mayor in 2020, which won an Emmy.[12] 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.[13] The film subsequently received BAFTA[14] and Oscar nominations for Best Documentary[15]

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[16] and Once Upon A Time In Londongrad,[17] 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.[18] The series ended after five seasons with a feature-length special released in 2022.

Filmography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mitchell2011-01-19T11:50:00+00:00 . Wendy . Teddy Leifer . 2023-12-14 . Screen . en.
  2. Web site: Rise Films . 2023-12-06 . Rise Films . en-US.
  3. Web site: 2023 Oscars.org Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . 2023-12-15 . www.oscars.org . en.
  4. https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/all-that-breathes/
  5. Web site: THE ACADEMY INVITES 398 TO MEMBERSHIP . 2023-12-06 . press.oscars.org . en.
  6. Web site: Kay2007-05-07T01:03:00+01:00 . Jeremy . We Are Together wins Tribeca Audience Award . 2023-12-06 . Screen . en.
  7. Web site: Finke . Nikki . 2009-01-25 . SUNDANCE AWARDS: 'We Live in Public', 'Push', 'Rough Aunties', 'The Maid' Win Jury Prizes; 'Afghan Star, 'An Education', 'The Cove', 'Push' Are Audience Favorites . 2023-12-06 . Deadline . en-US.
  8. News: 2013-11-19 . The Hospital Club 100 list 2013 . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-12-06 . 0261-3077.
  9. https://peabodyawards.com/award-profile/all-that-breathes/
  10. Web site: Vlessing . Etan . 2015-02-25 . Sundance Award Winners ‘Dreamcatcher,’ ‘(T)error’ Headed to Hot Docs . 2023-12-06 . The Hollywood Reporter . en-US.
  11. Web site: McNary . Dave . 2018-03-05 . Netflix Wins First Feature Documentary Oscar With ‘Icarus’ . 2023-12-06 . Variety . en-US.
  12. Web site: POV Wins A News & Documentary Emmy Award for David Osit’s Mayor American Documentary . 2023-12-06 . www.amdoc.org . en.
  13. Web site: 2022-10-25 . A Poetic New Film Follows Two Dedicated Brothers Saving Delhi’s Black Kites Audubon . 2023-12-06 . www.audubon.org . en.
  14. Web site: 2023-01-19 . 2023 EE BAFTA Film Awards: The Winners . 2023-12-06 . www.bafta.org . en.
  15. .Web site: 2023 Oscars.org Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . 2023-12-06 . www.oscars.org . en.
  16. Web site: George Carlin's American Dream . 2023-12-06 . Television Academy . en.
  17. Web site: Goldbart . Max . 2022-05-16 . ‘Once Upon A Time In Londongrad’: Sky Greenlights Landmark Doc Series From Hulu’s ‘WeWork’ Director Jed Rothstein . 2023-12-06 . Deadline . en-US.
  18. Web site: 2017-09-11 . Plebs is getting a fourth series on ITV2 . 2023-12-06 . Digital Spy . en-GB.
  19. Web site: Oscars winners and nominees 2013: Complete list. Los Angeles Times. 25 February 2013. 2018-04-10. 2018-10-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20181018043007/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-en-oscars-2013-nomination-list-story.html. live.

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