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Teddy Leifer
Areas of Interest
My Films
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The Interrupters
THE INTERRUPTERS chronicles the cycle of violence over a year period in Chicago. Our prism is a group of men and wom...
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Rough Aunties
Fearless, feisty and resolute, the "Rough Aunties" are a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stan...
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We Are Together
Filmed over three years, WE ARE TOGETHER (Thina Simunye) tells the remarkable and moving story of a group of children...
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Invisible War
The Invisible War is an investigative and powerfully emotional documentary about the epidemic
of rape within the US...
About my company
RISE films is headed by Teddy Leifer and Paul Taylor, the team behind WE ARE TOGETHER, one of the most awarded feature documentaries in recent years.
RISE has a growing slate of projects in production and development including COWBOYS IN INDIA from award winning director, Simon Chambers and a new film from Academy Nominated, Steve James (director of HOOP DREAMS). Our recently completed films include PROJECT KASHMIR from Senain Kheshgi, Geeta Patel and Academy Award winner, Ross Kauffman and ROUGH AUNTIES from BAFTA winning director, Kim Longinotto which won the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
RISE is steadily developing a slate of sitcoms and we recently launched the SUMMER CHALLENGE, an initiative to encourage new feature film writers, together with Casarotto
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