Biografia
Eli Despres, ACE, created and executive produced the acclaimed HBO series *Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show* alongside star Jerrod Carmichael and director Ari Katcher. The show received praise such as "The most astonishing, emotionally raw reality TV ever made... clearly in a league of its own" (The Guardian) and "Wildly entertaining and groundbreaking" (Esquire). He also created and directed the hit Showtime series *Couples Therapy* with Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, described as "The juiciest, most addicting show on TV" (The Daily Beast) and "A near miracle of a docuseries" (New York Magazine). Despres co-directed and produced *The Fight*, which was called "Riveting. An artfully crafted and improbably entertaining documentary" by The Washington Post and won the 2020 Sundance Special Jury Prize. He co-wrote and edited *Weiner*, praised as "Mind blowing, hilarious, unsparing... One of the best documentaries ever made" (Rolling Stone), winner of the 2016 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, BAFTA nominee, and shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Additionally, he edited *Blackfish*, described as "Shattering... Eli Despres edits with propulsive narrative drive" (The Hollywood Reporter), also a BAFTA nominee and shortlisted for the Academy Awards.
As co-founder of Edgeline Films, alongside Steinberg and Kriegman, Eli has executive produced projects for HBO, Showtime, Hulu, FX, and Netflix. His other writing and editing credits include *Red Army*, called "One of the best documentaries that I have ever seen" (The Hollywood Reporter) and "A stirring, crazy story—a Russian novel of Tolstoyan sweep and Gogol-esque absurdity" (New York Times, Cannes 2014); *They Call Us Monsters* (PBS); the Emmy-winning investigative journalism series *Exposé* (PBS); the feature documentary *City Lax* (ESPN); and the fiction feature *Wilderness Survival for Girls* (ContentFilm/Image Entertainment), which he also directed. Eli received nominations for the American Cinema Editors' Documentary award in 2014 and 2017 and is an active member of both the American Cinema Editors (ACE) and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
