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Marc Levin - Director
Award-winning filmmaker Marc Levin has written, directed, and produced many highly acclaimed documentary and feature films. He won international recognition for his dramatic feature film, SLAM, which received the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Camera D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His most recent non-fiction film, SOLDIERS IN THE ARMY OF GOD, premiered at the Toronto 2000 Film Festival. TWILIGHT LOS ANGELES, his adaptation of Anna Deavere Smith's critically acclaimed one-woman show, was selected as the opening film of the International Human Rights Film Festival at Lincoln Center. Mr. Levin's hip-hop fable, BROOKLYN BABYLON, stars Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter with an original score and performances by the legendary Grammy winners The Roots. The feature musical will be released in the spring of 2001. THUG LIFE IN D.C., a film he made for HBO, won the 1999 National Emmy for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special. WHITEBOYS, a comedy starring the hip-hop artist Danny Hoch, was released by Fox Searchlight in 1999. In 1997, Mr. Levin was awarded the prestigious duPont-Columbia award for CIA: AMERICA'S SECRET WARRIORS, a three-part series that aired on the Discovery Channel. During the 1990s, he directed and produced a series of highly praised documentaries for HBO, including THE EXECUTION MACHINE: TEXAS DEATH ROW. In 1996, PRISONERS OF THE WAR ON DRUGS was nominated for both an Emmy for Outstanding Informational Special and for a CableACE for Outstanding Educational Special. GANG WAR: BANGIN' IN LITTLE ROCK won the CableACE Award for Best Documentary Special of 1994. In 1992 Mr. Levin directed Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr. in THE LAST PARTY, a gonzo look at that year's presidential campaign. In 1990, he produced and directed MOB STORIES, an HBO special on the decline of the Mafia. From the mid-'70s through the '80s Mr. Levin teamed up with one of America's most respected journalists, Bill Moyers. He directed THE HOME FRONT WITH BILL MOYERS, which was honored with the duPont-Columbia Gold Baton Award. He won a national Emmy award as the producer/editor of THE SECRET GOVERNMENT -- THE CONSTITUTION IN CRISIS. His PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN ZEALOT was made part of the Museum of Modern Art's permanent film collection.
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