Directors: Jeffrey Saunders, Jay Shapiro Producer: Jeffrey Saunders
Description: All
Rise tells the stories of several passionate law students who are
intent on making a change in themselves and the world, as they take
on a major step early in their careers competing in the world's
largest moot court competition, the Jessup. Against the backdrop of
their very different lives, this intimate and moving film lays bare
the transformative process that is woven into this global effort and
bares light on the individuals who will one day change the world in
which we live through the instruments of international law.
Biography: Jeffrey
Saunders is an Emmy Nominated and Peabody Award-winning
filmmaker. He founded CinemaCapital, a production company based in
New York City focused on realizing visual content from feature films
to interactive programming. After a short-lived career as a
professional soccer player, he got his start in film working as a
script reader at EMK Productions in Los Angeles working on behalf of
HBO and TNT. Since then, he has directed and produced fiction films,
nonfiction films, series, commercials and industrials as well as
working with Fortune 500 companies on their brand strategies. His
films have been selected at international festivals including the
Berlin Film Festival, SWSX, IDFA and Thessaloniki Film Festival and
acquired by distributors and broadcasters including Sundance, ARTE,
PBS, Film Movement, IndiePix, ZDF, FilmMovement, Netflix and SBS. His
feature film Goal Dreams was selected as one of the top 10
Movies That Matter by Amnesty International.
Jay
Shapiro has been working in the film industry for a decade after
having studied documentary and film production at Clark University
where he was awarded a fellowship by the Anton Group to produce a
documentary in Ghana entitled Like Me, I am Here. He has
specialized in international documentaries and recently released Opposite Field, a film which chronicles a Ugandan little
league baseball team. All Rise marks a natural progression in
Shapiro’s career which allows him to explore his intellectual
interests in the future of international law while employing his
expertise in multi-country production.
