Gabe Polsky

• Name — Gabe Polsky • Born — 3 May 1979 • Occupation — * Film director • writer • producer • Website — GabePolskyProductions.com

Gabe Polsky was born on May 3, 1979, to Ukrainian immigrants in Illinois, and he was primarily raised in the Chicago area. He attended the Hotchkiss School. After graduating, he attended Yale University, where he played NCAA hockey. He competed on Team USA in hockey at the 1997 Maccabiah Games in Israel, winning a silver medal.

In 2009, Polsky was among the producers on the Werner Herzog film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. In 2011, he and his brother Alan Polsky were among the producers of Little Birds, an indie/drama film loosely based on the 1979 short story collection Little Birds by Anaïs Nin. Later that year, Polsky produced His Way, a documentary about film producer Jerry Weintraub that was released on HBO. Polsky and his brother Alan co-directed and produced The Motel Life (2012), based on the 2007 novel The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin. Polsky then wrote, directed, and produced Red Army (2014), a documentary about the Soviet Union men's national ice hockey team, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Polsky and his brother Alan acquired the rights to the Einstein estate and the book Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, and they were among the executive producers of the Genius series on National Geographic in 2017. Polsky wrote, directed, and produced the sports documentaries In Search of Greatness (2018), Red Penguins (2019), and the episode "Red Penguins: Murder, Money and Ice Hockey" in season 24 of Storyville. With Liam Satre Meloy, Polsky directed Butcher's Crossing (2022), an adaptation of the John Williams novel, Butcher's Crossing, starring Nicolas Cage alongside Fred Hechinger. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Polsky directed, wrote, and produced the documentary The Man Who Saves the World? in 2025.

• Year — Title — Role(s) — Notes • 2009 — Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans — Producer — Producer credit confirmed in trade databases. • 2011 — Little Birds — Producer — Sundance title; producers include Jamie Patricof, Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky. • 2011 — His Way (TV documentary) — Producer — HBO documentary about Jerry Weintraub; producer credit includes Gabe Polsky • 2012 — The Motel Life — Co-director, producer — Feature co-directed by Alan and Gabe Polsky. • 2014 — Red Army — Writer, director, producer — Premiered in Cannes Special Screenings; won audience awards at AFI Fest, Chicago, and Middleburg. • 2017 — Genius (TV series) — Executive producer — Series received 10 Primetime Emmy nominations (season 1). • 2018 — In Search of Greatness — Writer, director, producer — Nominated for WGA Documentary Screenplay. • 2019 — Red Penguins — Writer, director, producer — World premiere at TIFF 2019; U.S. release via Universal (2020). • 2022 — Butcher's Crossing — Director — World premiere at TIFF 2022; U.S. theatrical release October 20, 2023 (Saban Films). • 2025 — The Man Who Saves the World? — Director, writer, producer — Limited U.S. theatrical release scheduled for October 17, 2025 (Area 23a).