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Gabe Polsky is an American film producer, writer, and director. Polsky wrote, produced and directed Red Army, a documentary film about the Soviet Union and its famed ice hockey team which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The New York Times called the film “one of the festival’s most pleasurable surprises.” Time Magazine said: ”this playful, poignant film presents a human story that transcends decades, borders and ideologies.” In 2014 Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights for Red Army in North America.Polsky co-directed and produced The Motel Life, starring Emile Hirsch, Dakota Fanning, and Stephen Dorff described by Indiewire as “a perfectly formed Indie with a heart of gold.” Released in November 2013, The Motel Life has been called “outstanding and enthralling” by The Washington Post, and “admirable and memorable” by The Wall Street Journal.Additional producing credits include: Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which was named in over 40 top-ten lists of the Best Films in 2009; His Way, an Emmy-nominated documentary released by HBO in 2011; and Little Birds, which was named among the top ten independent films of 2012 by the National Board of Review. Polsky is adapting the novels Butcher’s Crossing by John Edward Williams and National Book Award-winning Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien. Other projects in development include novels Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, to be produced at Sony as a starring vehicle for Will Smith; and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Polsky has also secured the life rights to Albert Einstein as well as to surfing legend Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz and his family.