Marc Levin is an award-winning, independent filmmaker dedicated to telling powerful, real stories in a unique, authentic style. He has won four Emmys, four duPont-Columbia Awards, the Peabody Award, the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Highlights include: Slam, his breakout festival hit; Brick City, the groundbreaking docu-series about Newark, New Jersey’s charismatic Mayor Cory Booker; Gang War: Bangin’ in Little Rock; Emmy-winning Thug Life in DC for HBO; Chicagoland, a docu-series for CNN and Robert Redford’s Sundance Productions, nominated for a 2014 IDA Award for Best Limited Series.
One of America’s most respected filmmakers, Levin has directed with his producing partner Daphne Pinkerson, over a dozen acclaimed documentaries for HBO, including Class Divide, winner of DOC NYC’s Grand Jury Prize. He executive produced the Emmy Award-winning HBO documentary I Am Evidence and Baltimore Rising, winner of the 2019 Cinema Eye Award for Outstanding Non-Fiction Documentary. He reunited with journalist Bill Moyers on Rikers: An American Jail, winner of the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award for Media Advocacy. Levin and filmmaker Mark Benjamin teamed up with Robert Redford and Paul Allen to executive produce Animal Planet’s series Ocean Warriors, winner of the 2017 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival Award for Best Limited Series.
Recently Levin directed Stockton on My Mind following Mayor Michael Tubbs’ bold initiatives to provide opportunities for his city’s youth and I Promise, which chronicles the first year of the innovative Akron public school created by LeBron James and his foundation. Both were selected for World Premieres at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. I Promise was honored by the African American Film Critics Association as the 2020 Best Short Form Series.
