---
name: "Teddy Leifer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/teddy-leifer"
fi1m_id: "teddy-leifer"
imdb_id: "nm1746166"
tmdb_id: 1014612
wikidata_id: "Q7694040"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-03T02:33:57.522331+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Teddy Leifer

## Identity

Teddy Leifer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/teddy-leifer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** teddy-leifer
- **IMDb ID:** nm1746166
- **TMDB ID:** 1014612
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7694040
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Leifer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7694040, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1746166/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1014612

Producer. Born 1 January 1983.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1983
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 77 (2), 2020s 82 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 75 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Documentary 3, Drama 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $0m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Leifer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7694040, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1746166/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1014612

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*All That Breathes*](https://film.one/film/all-that-breathes.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Teddy Leifer is a British film and television producer. He founded the London-based production company Rise Films in 2006.

Leifer has produced documentaries including *We Are Together* (2006), *The Interrupters* (2011), *The Invisible War* (2012), *Icarus* (2017) and *All That Breathes* (2022), the latter a Peabody Award winner that received Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for Best Documentary. He also produced the television series *Plebs* (2013–2019) and its 2022 feature-length special. His more recent credits include *George Carlin's American Dream* (2022) and *Teenage Wasteland* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *All That Breathes* (2022), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/all-that-breathes.md)
- *Icarus* (2017), Fi1m 76, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/icarus.md)
- *The Interrupters* (2011), Fi1m 78, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-interrupters.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *SUMO: Spirit Weighs Nothing* (2026), Producer
- *The Balloonists* (2026), Producer
- *Nuisance Bear* (2026), Producer
- *Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!* (2026), series, Consulting Producer
- *Teenage Wasteland* (2025), Producer
- *All That Breathes* (2022), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/all-that-breathes.md)
- *George Carlin's American Dream* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *The Human Factor* (2021), Producer
- *The Art of Political Murder* (2020), Producer
- *Mayor* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Icarus* (2017), Executive Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/icarus.md)
- *Dreamcatcher* (2015), Producer
- *Who Is Dayani Cristal?* (2013), Executive Producer
- *The Invisible War* (2012), Executive Producer
- *The Interrupters* (2011), Executive Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-interrupters.md)
- *Too Fast to be a Woman?: The Story of Caster Semenya* (2011), Executive Producer
- *Muslim School* (2009), Executive Producer
- *We Are Together* (2006), Producer
- *Paul Robeson Documentary*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2023: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *All That Breathes*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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