24 Facts About Jeff Zimbalist

Jeff Zimbalist has been Academy Award shortlisted, has won a Peabody, a DuPont, 5 Emmy Awards with 17 Emmy nominations.

Jeff Zimbalist is the owner of film and television production company All Rise Films.

Jeff Zimbalist received his bachelor's degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Jeff Zimbalist has done commercial work for Gatorade, Pepsi, Verizon, the National Football League, and other organizations.

Jeff Zimbalist's work has been featured in a retrospective at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, at the Museum of the Moving Image, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

In 2005, Jeff Zimbalist teamed up with Matt Mochary to direct and produce the documentary Favela Rising.

Together with Mochary, Jeff Zimbalist won the Best Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2005 TriBeCa Film Festival.

Jeff Zimbalist was credited as the director of photography and editor.

Since, the Jeff Zimbalist brothers directed two other entries into the 30for30 series, including Arnold's Blueprint with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Youngstown Boys, featuring hall-of-famer Jim Brown, which won an Emmy in 2014.

Jeff Zimbalist directed The Greatest Love Story Ever Told about the Bollywood film industry in India, produced by Shekhar Kapur, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011.

In 2014, the Jeff Zimbalist brothers wrote and directed Pele: Birth of a Legend with Pele for Imagine Entertainment with Brian Grazer producing and an original score from AR Rahman.

Jeff Zimbalist wrote and produced Loving Pablo starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival and was released by Universal Studios.

Also in 2018, Jeff Zimbalist released the 20-episode Phenoms series on Fox Sports about rising global soccer stars.

In 2019, Jeff Zimbalist created and was showrunner on the Netflix investigative music documentary series ReMastered, executive produced by Irving Azoff.

In 2021, Jeff Zimbalist was executive producer on Dirty Robber's Heist series, which was released on Netflix and ranked in Netflix top 5 worldwide and top 10 in the United States in July, 2021.

Jeff Zimbalist directed and executive produced Jigsaw's The Line series for Apple TV+ with Executive Producer Alex Gibney, which won a Columbia DuPont Journalism Award in 2021 and was nominated for two Emmy Awards in the Best Documentary and Outstanding Investigative Documentary categories.

In 2023, Jeff Zimbalist executive produced Invisible Beauty about black fashion pioneer Bethann Hardison, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was theatrically distributed by Magnolia Pictures, and won an NAACP Award for Best Documentary.

Alongside Connor Schell, Jeff Zimbalist executive produced and directed the Apple+ series Super League: The War for Football which won two Emmys in 2024 for Outstanding Documentary Series and Outstanding Design.

In 2024, Jeff Zimbalist received an Emmy Nomination for his Paramount+ series CRUSH about the South Korea crowd disaster.

Jeff Zimbalist premiered Skywalkers: A Love Story in the US Documentary Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews.

Jeff Zimbalist has produced development documentaries and consulted for clients in the United States, South Asia, Africa, and Latin America, including the Ford Foundation, the World Bank, the Templeton Foundation, the Inter-American Development Bank, the UNDP, and various international nonprofit service organizations.

Jeff Zimbalist is a Massachusetts State Cultural Council Fellow, a Cinereach grantee, a San Francisco Film Society Rainin Grant recipient, LEF grant recipient, and a Ford Foundation Grantee.

Jeff Zimbalist has taught at the New York Film Academy and the Maine Photographic Workshops.

Jeff Zimbalist's done philanthropy work for Amigos de las Americas, an organization that he volunteered with as a teenager.