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Jeff Zimbalist is an American filmmaker, producer, and writer. He is best known for his work on the documentary films Favela Rising (2005) and The Two Escobars (2010). He is the co-founder of the production company, Matador Content. Zimbalist was born on August 15, 1978 in Northampton, Massachusetts. He attended the University of Southern California, where he earned a degree in film production. Zimbalist has been involved in the production of several documentaries, including Favela Rising (2005), The Two Escobars (2010), and The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014). He has also produced and directed several short films, including The Last Day of August (2008) and The Last Day of August (2009). As of 2021, Jeff Zimbalist's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million. He has earned his wealth through his successful career as a filmmaker, producer, and writer.

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In 2018, Jeff created and was showrunner on the Netflix marquee investigative music documentary series ReMastered, which was nominated for 2 Emmys and topped Netflix highest rated documentaries of 2019 with the episode WHO SHOT THE SHERIFF.

The same year, Zimbalist won an Emmy and an Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival alongside over 25 other international film festival awards, 5 New York Film & TV Gold Awards and the Grand Prize, and two Emmy nominations for his documentary Momentum Generation and premiered Nossa Chape at SxSw Film Festival. Nossa Chape was released theatrically in the US on June 1, 2018 by Fox with an introduction by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and broadcast premiered during the World Cup on Fox June 23, 2018. It has a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score. Nossa Chape won Best Picture at the 2018 Los Angeles Film Awards, where Momentum Generation won Best Inspirational Film, and the Zimbalist Brother's feature documentary Give Us This Day, tracking 3 police officers and 3 residents in the highest homicide rate city in the U.S., won the Best Director honor. Give Us This Day also won 4 Medals at the New York Film & TV Awards. Also in 2018, Jeff released the Phenoms series on Fox Sports.

Zimbalist directed "The Greatest Love Story Ever Told" about the Bollywood film industry in India, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and was theatrically distributed worldwide with Wild Bunch. In 2014, the Zimbalist brothers wrote and directed a scripted feature film on the early life of soccer legend Pelé for Imagine Entertainment with Brian Grazer producing. Pelé was distributed theatrically worldwide. Pelé himself attended the premieres at the Cannes Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2010, Disney / ESPN Films released "The Two Escobars" which Jeff directed and produced with his brother Michael Zimbalist. Jeff also was credited as the director of photography and editor. The film was nominated for another Emmy and was an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and the IDFA International Film Festival. In 2011, Jeff and Michael Zimbalist's script for The Two Escobars was nominated for a best nonfiction script by the Writers Guild of America and was named 2010 Documentary Of The Year alongside The Tillman Story by Sports Illustrated. Of the over 150 films in the Academy Award winning and Emmy Award-winning 30 for 30 series, many have ranked "The Two Escobars" as the best one, including the NY Post and Vulture. In 2019, The Hollywood Reporter ranked the show the 5th best tv series of the decade behind Breaking Bad, Madmen, Rectify, and Parks and Recreation The Zimbalists shared the 2011 Peabody Award with this first season of ESPN Films 30for30 filmmakers. Since, in addition to producing other 30for30 films, the Zimbalist brothers have also directed two other entries into the 30for30 series, including "Arnold's Blueprint" with Arnold Schwarzenegger and "Youngstown Boys", which won an Emmy in 2014.

Together with Matt Mochary, Jeff won the Best Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2005 TriBeCa Film Festival for his film Favela Rising. Favela Rising also garnered a 2006 Emmy Nomination for Zimbalist, was named as the 2005 International Documentary Association's Film of the Year, was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005, and won 36 International Film Festival Awards, including Best Documentary at Sydney and Leeds International Film Festivals. The film follows the life of Anderson Sa through the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in his attempt to use Afro-Reggae music to provide a positive outlet for the residents of a dangerous environment. The film was distributed by Thinkfilm and HBO Documentary Films in North America and was theatrically released in 16 countries, including by the Institute of Contemporary Art in the UK.

Jeffrey Leib Nettler Zimbalist (born August 15, 1978 in Northampton, Massachusetts) is an Academy Award shortlisted, Peabody and multi-Emmy award winning, American filmmaker. With his brother Michael, he runs a production company called All Rise Films.