Guy Shalem is an Israeli-born, Emmy-nominated television, film, commercial, and music video producer, director, and writer. He produced the 2026 indie film Monument, a gripping true story (shot in the summer of 2023 in Athens) that navigates a deeply controversial subject. Directed by Bryan Singer and starring Jon Voight and Joe Mazzello, Shalem successfully steered the project through an impossible political landscape to finally bring it to audiences. Fueled by positive reviews, Monument has expanded to 80+ AMC theaters across the United States.

He was an executive producer of “KC! Pop Quiz,” that helped launch Genius Brands’ Kartoon Channel, with 140 daily episodes in its first season. The series was developed by SZZL, his new production company which has leveraged social media creators around the world to deliver high production value at a remarkably low cost. 

Somewhere along the line, Shalem accidentally stumbled into a parallel destiny as a chef, launching the underground culinary phenomenon meetingofthemaster.club. Fueled by a relentless curiosity, he curated the club's menu by collecting and reinventing vibrant fusion recipes from his travels to over 130 countries. What began as a private escape quickly mutated via word-of-mouth into a fiercely guarded insider hub. The Hollywood Reporter spotlighted the experience as a brilliant “reinvention of the ego”—a rare, unscripted space where guarded industry giants and top-tier creatives drop their Hollywood shields, roll up their sleeves, and connect like regular humans over a hot stove.

Expanding on his legacy of pioneering smartphone cinema, Shalem is currently deep in post-production on an unannounced, highly confidential documentary feature, shot entirely on an iPhone as a thematic, feature-length successor to his acclaimed short film “Ronny & i” (Cannes 2013). This massive, high-stakes project brings the breakthrough first-person aesthetic of the original short into the non-fiction space, navigating hundreds of hours of complex footage and deeply sensitive contemporary material.

Shalem made history as the first Israeli-born WGA writer to create, direct, and executive produce an original series for American television with the cult comedy “Lovespring International” for Lionsgate and Lifetime, starring Jane Lynch in her first TV leading role. He also created, wrote, and directed the star-studded spec comedy pilot “Rex”, uniting an iconic pop-culture ensemble including Simon Rex, Paris Hilton, Jaime Pressly, and Lance Bass, which Page Six enthusiastically hailed with a resounding, "Yes, please!". Then directed Betty White in her Emmy nominated NBC show “Off Their Rockers.” He created and produced the romance-fiction franchise “Fall Into Me” for Lifetime’s digital-first platform, and produced Warner Bros.' pioneering early digital pilot “SO-LA.” A long-time trailblazer of short-form storytelling, he also created Fox Television Studios' “Love and Hate,” recognized as the first studio-produced mobile series ever made. He also directed the feature film “Cook-Off!” starring Wendi McLendon-Covey and Melissa McCarthy.  Guy was supervising producer on “Instant Beauty Pageant” and “God or the Girl” on A&E, and has directed several reality pilots for iTV, VH-1, ABC and FOX.