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
[edit]- ^ "Matti Leshem". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
- ^ a b c "Lynn Harris, Matti Leshem". The New York Times. April 4, 2009. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
- ^ Jr, Mike Fleming (October 2, 2014). "Ex-WB Exec Lynn Harris Launches Weimaraner With Husband Matti Leshem". Deadline. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
- ^ "'The Survivor': The long road to bring Harry Haft's story to the screen". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. April 28, 2022. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.