Simcha Jacobovici

Simcha Jacobovici is a documentary film director and producer. Among Jacobovici’s many awards are an unprecedented three US Emmys for “Outstanding Investigative Journalism”.

Jacobovici is also an internationally acclaimed journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Huntington University in Northern Ontario and a guest lecturer at many academic venues including Johns Hopkins, McGill, UCLA, York University and Yale.

Jacobovici has produced non-scripted programming for practically every major broadcaster in the world. For three seasons, he hosted The Naked Archaeologist on the History Channel worldwide. Jacobovici has also co-produced three feature documentaries with James Cameron, including The Exodus Decoded, The Lost Tomb of Jesus and Atlantis Rising. Presently, Jacobovici is in development with Morgan Freeman on a 4-part non-scripted series entitled Black Pharaohs and Warrior Queens. He is also showrunner/producer on The Science of Avatar, a 4-part non-scripted series for Disney+/National Geographic.

Recently, Jacobovici was series director/showrunner on Enslaved: The Lost History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Epix, CBC, BBC, Fremantle), a 6-part non-scripted series hosted and co-produced by Hollywood icon, Samuel L. Jackson. Enslaved is the most comprehensive series ever made on the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It tells this epic and tragic story using a modern day quest for sunken slave ships as the springboard to the larger narrative. The series has been broadcast in over 150 countries, screened in the United Nations and the European Parliament and has picked up numerous awards including two NAACP Image Award nominations and two Canadian Screen Awards. In the fall of 2022, a companion book written by Simcha with Dr. Sean Kingsley, was published by Pegasus in New York and distributed by Simon and Schuster worldwide.

Jacobovici has been interviewed on many of the major television and radio talk shows including Anderson Cooper, Today, Oprah and Good Morning America.

For his filmmaking, Jacobovici has won over one hundred international awards including three US Emmys, a Certificate of Special Merit from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, a DuPontColumbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism and two Edward R. Murrow Awards from the American Overseas Press Club. In 2017, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presented Jacobovici with Canada’s highest award for Broadcast Journalism, the Gordon Sinclair Award.

Jacobovici holds an Honours B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from McGill University and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Toronto. Jacobovici speaks four languages. His company, Associated Producers, is based in Toronto. He lives with his wife and five children in Israel.