Matti Leshem is a film & television producer. He co-founded New Mandate Films, a film and television production company created to mine the rich depth of Jewish history, literature, and stories from the Bible to the present day. New Mandate's first feature film, The Survivor, directed by Academy Award winner, Barry Levinson debuted on HBO on Yom Hashoah, April 27th, 2022. Leshem is also the co-founder of Weimaraner Republic Pictures (WRPCO), which he and his wife, Lynn Harris, founded in 2014 and named after their beloved Weimaraners Hank and Coco. In 2016, WRPCO produced the global hit The Shallows for Sony Pictures. Leshem graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA and holds an MFA in Film Directing from the American Film Institute (AFI). He serves on the board of American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic (AFIPO).
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Biography from IMDb.
- USA
- Producer and director, also writer
- 7 on MovieCove · 9 credits in all
What are Matti Leshem's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Society.
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 0 · Serious 1 · Dark 3
Grounded 2 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 1 · Intense 3
Steady 1 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 2
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous1
- Cyclical1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Matti Leshem's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 7 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Matti Leshem's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
9 credits, 7 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all shows
The Commandant's Shadow(2024)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
The Survivor(2021)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
Home Game(2020)
Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
The Shallows(2016)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Skins (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
Falcon Crest(1981)
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all showsJagged Edge (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 7 titles, 6 of them dated from 1981 to 2024.
Awards
Nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2022, Outstanding Television Movie.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Matti Leshem's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 63rd percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 63rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 7 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Cult Classic2
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed1
Reviewers score the atmosphere 68/100 and the pacing 52/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Matti Leshem work with?
People who share at least 2 of Matti Leshem's MovieCove titles; Joel A. Greenberg shares the most, 2.
- Joel A. GreenbergShared titles: The Commandant's Shadow (2024), The Survivor (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Joel A. Greenberg