JEFF AND MICHAEL ZIMBALIST

United States

Jeff and Michael ZimbalistJeff and Michael Zimbalist

All Rise Films

Jeff and Michael Zimbalist are multi-Emmy and Peabody Award winning writers, directors, and editors whose films have been broadcast on HBO, Netflix, Showtime, MTV, IFC, FOX, PBS, ESPN, CBS, Channel 4, the BBC and BET, as well theatrically distributed worldwide. 

The brothers are the creators and showrunners of Netflix’s multi-Emmy nominated marquee investigative music documentary series REMASTERED.  In the last year, they also released their Fox series PHENOMS, about young footballers in the lead up to the 2018 World Cup, and produced and directed three feature documentaries: NOSSA CHAPE, the critically acclaimed story about the rebuilding of the Chapecoense soccer club after a tragic airplane crash killed most of the team, which premiered at SXSW; MOMENTUM GENERATION, about the world’s most legendary surf crew, executive produced by Robert Redford, which won the Emmy for Best Feature Sport Documentary, 7 awards at the New York Film & TV Awards including the grand prize, as well as a Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award and other festival wins; and GIVE US THIS DAY, a Los Angeles Film Awards winner following three police officers and three residents in East St. Louis, the city with the highest homicide rate in the country, executive produced by Vince Vaughn. 

In 2010, the brothers’ film THE TWO ESCOBARS premiered as an official selection of Cannes and Tribeca, won 4 Gold Medals in the New York Film & TV awards, and was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Documentary, as well as the Writer's Guild of America's Best Nonfiction Script.  The Zimbalist brothers directed two other entries in the ESPN 30for30 series, ARNOLD'S BLUEPRINT, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and YOUNGSTOWN BOYS, which won an Emmy in 2014. 

In 2005, Jeff’s film FAVELA RISING was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, and among the 36 awards it won are the IDA’s Film of the Year and Best Director at the Tribeca Film Festival.  It was theatrically exhibited in five continents and in the U.S by ThinkFilm and HBO. In 2011, Jeff's film BOLLYWOOD: THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD premiered as an official selection of Cannes, and was sold worldwide by Wild Bunch. 

In 2016, Jeff and Michael wrote and directed PELÉ: BIRTH OF A LEGEND, a scripted feature film about the soccer legend produced by Academy Award winner Brian Grazer, which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and was released theatrically around the world. 

Jeff and Michael's production company, All Rise Films, also works with brands and entertainment icons such as Will Smith, Quincy Jones, Shakira, Russell Simmons, Mick Jagger, Irving Azoff, Javier Bardem, Naomi Campbell, Aishwarya Rai, and Amitabh Bachchan in the development of original content. 

Jeff graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with honors in Art Semiotics and Modern Culture and Media. Michael graduated with honors from Wesleyan University and trained as an actor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Prior to working together, Jeff taught at the New York Film Academy and the Maine Photographic Workshops. Michael produced stage plays for The Old Globe Theatre and served as Artistic Director and Senior Writer of El Colectivo Chunique – a Mexico-based theater company that Michael founded in 2004.

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