Simcha Jacobovici

Director/Producer/Author

Simcha Jacobovici is a multi award-winning documentary director and producer. He’s also a best selling author and an award-winning journalist. As a filmmaker, his numerous awards include a Gold Medal from the International Documentary Festival of Nyon, a certificate of Special Merit from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, a Genie Award, three U.S. Cable Ace Awards, two Gemini Awards, an Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award, a British Broadcast Award, a Royal Television Society Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award. Mr. Jacobovici has also won the Emmy for "Outstanding Investigative Journalism" an unprecedented three times in 1995, 1996 and 2007.

Recent films include Impact of Terror (CNN), Sex Slaves (CBC, C4, PBS Frontline), and The Exodus Decoded (History Channel), which Mr. Jacobovici produced with James Cameron. The Lost Tomb of Jesus (Discovery Channel, Vision, TF1, ProSieben), broadcast in 2007, was also produced with James Cameron and continues to garner worldwide attention.   

His first book The Jesus Family Tomb (Harper Collins 2007), co-written with Dr. Charles Pellegrino, is a companion book to the documentary film. It is an international best seller.

As a journalist, Mr. Jacobovici’s pieces have appeared in many of the world’s top newspapers including the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Globe and Mail. Mr. Jacobovici has also been a guest lecturer on the campuses of Yale, Johns-Hopkins, UCLA, McGill and the University of Toronto, among others.

Mr. Jacobovici has made guest appearances on numerous television shows, including “The Today Show”, “Oprah” and “Larry King Live”. Presently, he’s the host of the History Channel’s top rated archaeology series “The Naked Archaeologist”, now in its third season.

An Israeli-Canadian, Mr. Jacobovici has a B.A. in Philosophy from McGill University and a M.A. in International Relations from the University of Toronto. He speaks four languages (English, Hebrew, French and Romanian).