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Matti Leshem
Matti Leshem is an Israeli-American film and TV producer.
Leshem was born to Jewish parents, Alyssa Leshem, a skincare specialist of Boca Raton and Moshe Leshem, an Israeli diplomat. His father was also a Holocaust survivor and as a diplomat held missions in Zaire and Denmark. His father also served as Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations. During this period, Leshem attended Ramaz School, a prestigious Modern Orthodox school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
Leshem later earned a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College, and a master’s degree in directing from the American Film Institute.
Leshem is the co-founder of New Mandate Films, an American film and television production company focused on Jewish history and literature.
In 2014, with his wife Lynn Harris, he co-founded Weimaraner Republic Pictures, a film, TV and digital production company.
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.
Leshem created Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, an eight-part docudrama TV series, with Martin Scorsese narrating the lives of eight Christian saints, and Leshem producing.
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. In November 2023 in Los Angeles, they hosted a delegation of Israeli survivors of the October 7 attacks and the families of hostages.
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Matti Leshem
Matti Leshem is an Israeli-American film and TV producer.
Leshem was born to Jewish parents, Alyssa Leshem, a skincare specialist of Boca Raton and Moshe Leshem, an Israeli diplomat. His father was also a Holocaust survivor and as a diplomat held missions in Zaire and Denmark. His father also served as Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations. During this period, Leshem attended Ramaz School, a prestigious Modern Orthodox school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
Leshem later earned a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College, and a master’s degree in directing from the American Film Institute.
Leshem is the co-founder of New Mandate Films, an American film and television production company focused on Jewish history and literature.
In 2014, with his wife Lynn Harris, he co-founded Weimaraner Republic Pictures, a film, TV and digital production company.
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.
Leshem created Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, an eight-part docudrama TV series, with Martin Scorsese narrating the lives of eight Christian saints, and Leshem producing.
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. In November 2023 in Los Angeles, they hosted a delegation of Israeli survivors of the October 7 attacks and the families of hostages.