Rise Films is an Academy Award® and Emmy®-winning production company that produces films and television programs for a global audience. Its productions include The Invisible War (Oscar® nominee, Emmy® and Peabody winner), The Interrupters (Emmy® winner), Icarus (Oscar® winner), Knuckle (world premiere at Sundance), Dreamcatcher (Sundance winner), We Are Together (Tribeca winner), Rough Aunties (Sundance winner), The Human Factor (world premiere at Telluride), Mayor (Emmy® and Peabody winner), and The Art of Political Murder (Emmy® nominee).
Its feature documentary All That Breathes, directed by Shaunak Sen, is the only film ever to have won both the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Best Documentary Award at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was presented in 2022. The film was nominated for both the BAFTA and the Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Among its landmark productions are George Carlin’s American Dream, a two-part series for HBO directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, which won the Emmy® for Best Documentary in 2022, and Once Upon a Time in Londongrad, a political thriller for Sky Documentaries, Peacock, and NBCUniversal that investigates 14 mysterious deaths in the United Kingdom.