Academy Award–Nominated filmmaker Jed Rothstein specializes in hard-to-get stories from around the world that call the powerful to account and help people understand one another better. His film WEWORK or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn premiered at SWSW in 2021 and won the 2022 News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary. The China Hustle premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before its theatrical run. Forbes called it, “The Most Important Film of 2018.” Other films include the award-winning Before the Spring After the Fall and the Oscar-nominated short Killing in the Name, for which he filmed both Al Qaeda terrorists and their victims. Rothstein also recently directed and produced on several streaming and television projects, including the acclaimed Netflix series The Innocence Files (a double episode on the wrongful conviction of Frankie Carrillo), Showtime’s ENEMIES (a miniseries on the FBI trying to ensure that even presidents are not above the law), Nat Geo’s Parched: Money Flows (a episode about injustice and the water crisis in Flint and Detroit), CNN’s Death Row Stories, and the Amazon Prime series The New Yorker Presents, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. He just finished a 6-part mini-series, Once Upon a Time in Londongrad, which follows the uncovering of 14 politically-motivated murders amongst the Russian exile community in London, and RUDY! A Documusical, which premiered at the 2022 TriBeCa Film Festival.
In addition to his 2011 Oscar nomination and his 2022 Emmy, Rothstein won Best Short at the 2010 LA Shorts fest for Killing in the Name, Best Documentary at 2013 Bend Film Festival for Before the Spring, After the Fall, and a 2003 News and Documentary Emmy for Research for his work on the Kids Behind Bars series.
Jed lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, the novelist Mira Jacob, and their son. Click here for IMDB.