Beth Levison looks at the camera and smiles.
Beth Levison
Photo courtesy Beth Levison
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Beth Levison (she/her) is an independent Emmy and Peabody-winning filmmaker based in NYC. Her most recent film, Storm Lake, which she directed alongside director/DP Jerry Risius and also produced, premiered at the 2021 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and won the Audience Award at AFI DOCS and the NYWIFT Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking Award at the Provincetown Film Festival. It is about one family’s efforts to protect their Iowan farming town through their biweekly newspaper—come hell or pandemic. Prior to that, she produced Women In Blue (2020 Tribeca Film Festival) about gender, violence, and race in American policing, and the Emmy-nominated Made in Boise (AFI DOCS 2019), about four women who carry babies for strangers in Boise, Idaho – the unofficial surrogacy capital of the U.S. Additional producing credits include the Emmy-nominated Personal Statement (PBS 2018), 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide (HBO 2017), and her documentary directorial debut Lemon (PBS 2011). Levison is the founder of Hazel Pictures, a co-founder of the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA), producing faculty with the School of Visual Arts MFA program in Social Documentary Film, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Emily Cohen Ibañez looking directly at the camera. She has short grey and dark brown hair and is wearing gold earrings, lipstick, and a striped T-shirt.
Emily Cohen Ibañez
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Jerry Risius holds a camera on his shoulder and smiles directly at the camera.
Jerry Risius
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Cai Thomas looks directly at the camera. She has short hair and wears a cap. Portrait in black and white.
Cai Thomas
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Leah Galant is smiling at the camera.
Leah Galant
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Maya Cueva looks at the camera.
Maya Cueva
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Ann Kaneko smirks while looking directly at the camera.
Ann Kaneko
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Mia Donovan looks away from the camera. She wears a dark outfit. Portrait in black and white.
Mia Donovan
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Ash Goh Hua looking straight ahead. She has shoulder-length dark hair partially tied up in a bun.
Ash Goh Hua
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A black and white portrait of filmmaker Brooke Pepion Swaney. A young woman with shoulder length dark hair looks intently at the camera. She wears a collared shirt and a crew neck sweater over it.
Brooke Pepion Swaney
Photo courtesy Brooke Pepion Swaney
A black and white portrait of Daniel Nelson. A white man with a beard and mustache is surrounded by film cameras, he looks down to the right through a camera lens he holds.
Daniel A. Nelson
Photo courtesy Daniel Nelson
A woman with shoulder-length dark hair and bangs looks intently to the left with her chin resting lightly on her fingers. Headshot of Natalie Patillo
Natalie Pattillo
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