Gina Levy
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Email: ginarlevy@gmail.com |
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Gina produces and directs fiction, documentary, commercials and news. An award-winning filmmaker, Gina Levy was named one of "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker Magazine. Her documentary "Foo-Foo Dust" was short-listed for an Academy Award, nominated for an IDA Documentary Achievement Award, awarded a Special Jury Prize at AFI-Silverdocs, won Best Doc Short at Los Angeles Film Festival and screened at over 30 festivals including Sundance. Gina produced, shot, edited and directed this film, which explores the relationship between a crack-addicted prostitute and her junkie son living in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. Adapted from a Joyce Carol Oates short story, her fiction short, "Ask Again Later," premiered at the Palm Springs Film Festival. She has directed reality television for September Films, commericials for AfterDark Filmsm and news for The New York Times. Gina graduated from Harvard University where she studied documentary photography with famed photographer Barbara Norfleet. Following, she embarked on a fellowship studying the response to deforestation in the Himalayas of India and Nepal. She was drawn to the stories and struggles of the people and began writing and photographing on culture and the environment of the Himalayas for the local press. She moved to Japan and then China where she worked as a writer and editor for The Economist Group covering multinational business throughout Asia. Her work continued in the area of print and visual communications. She authored three books for The Economist on China's economic boom. She produced an industrial video series on China, which won a Golden Cinema in Industry Award. Previous to her directing career, Gina was worked marketing as Vice President Marketing for two software companies. |
