Matti Leshem
Leshem is the co-founder of New Mandate Films, an American film and television production company focused on Jewish history and literature.
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.
Lesham earned a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College, and a master’s degree in directing from the American Film Institute.
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.
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.
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 Hamas terrorist attacks and families of the hostages being held in Gaza.
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