Rise Films is an Oscar® and Emmy® winning production company. Its productions include The Invisible War (Oscar® nominee and Emmy® winner), The Interrupters (Emmy® winner), Icarus (Oscar® winner), Knuckle, Dreamcatcher, We Are Together, Rough Aunties and Who is Dayani Cristal? starring Gael García Bernal. Rise has produced films and television programs for broadcasters and partners including BBC, Channel 4, PBS, Showtime and HBO, which have gone on to win multiple awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Other clients and partners include Netflix, Hulu, ITV, Universal, the BFI and Film4.
Roman comedy, Plebs, became ITV2’s highest rating comedy ever. The show is now in its fifth season and has won multiple awards including a Broadcast Award and a Royal Television Society Award, as well as receiving two BAFTA nominations. Rise is currently working on a U.S. remake of Plebs together with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Point Grey Pictures and animated comedy series, Dead Henry at Fox.
The company has recently wrapped production on The Human Factor, Dror Moreh’s follow-up to his Oscar® nominated, The Gatekeepers which Sony Pictures Classics will release in 2020; as well as The Art of Political Murder, a feature documentary for HBO, executive produced by George Clooney. Rise also produced David Osit’s latest film, Mayor, following the life and work of Musa Hadid, the mayor of Ramallah.