Rise Films is nearing the end of what has been a monumental month for the London-based production outfit. Last week, HBO Max launched the company’s two-part documentary George Carlin’s American Dream, which chronicles the life and five-decade career of the comedian with Judd Apatow in the director’s seat.The Oscar and Emmy-winning company also saw its documentary, All That Breathes, from Shaunak Sen, sell to HBO Documentary films earlier this week before it was shown in the Cannes Special Screening section last night.
Last week, Deadline revealed that the company would be producing landmark Sky documentary Once Upon A Time In Londongrad with Hulu’s WeWork helmer Jed Rothstein.
The NBCUniversal project explores 14 mysterious deaths in the UK with alleged connections to Russia over the last two decades.It marks the culmination of the company’s 15-year climb to forge itself as one of the key indie documentary players in the UK and, for Teddy Leifer, who co-founded the outfit back in 2007, it’s been a journey he wouldn’t change.“When we first started Rise Films, no one was really paying attention to documentaries,” he tells Deadline. “Feature documentary producers were basically seen as hobbyists.
We were neither really in the film world nor in the television world and there was a little bit of scratching the corners of both.”The company kicked open its doors with the moving and inspiring story We Are Together, which Leifer, who is general manager of Rise Films, produced with Paul Taylor directing.
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