Beth Levison

Filmmaker & Producer

Beth Levison is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer and director based in New York City. Her most recent producing efforts include Women in Blue (Tribeca Film Festival 2020/Independent Lens) and the Emmy-nominated film Made in Boise (AFI DOCS 2019/Independent Lens). Her previous producing credits include 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide (HBO 2017), the Emmy-nominated film Personal Statement (PBS 2018), and her independent directorial and producing debut, Lemon (PBS 2011). Beth is the founder of Hazel Pictures, a co-founder of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA), a member of AMPAS, and on the producing faculty at the School of Visual Arts (SVA).

Participating Sessions

Storm Lake

LOCAL JOURNALISM: OF DESERTS AND REGROWTH

“All journalism is local” goes the old saw, but if so, then all journalism is in trouble. In the last seventeen years, a quarter of all American newspapers have gone under, with local papers in small communities disappearing fastest. With them goes accountability. Where once there were vital avenues for reasoned public debate, there are now news deserts, lacking any ongoing press presence. The Storm Lake Times, captured in the...