Marc Levin
Marc Levin was born on January 31, 1951, in New York City, a city whose particular texture and social density would prove a fitting origin for a filmmaker who spent his career attending closely to American life. A citizen of the United States, he pursued his education at Wesleyan University before moving into a professional life built around film and television, working in English across the roles of director, producer, screenwriter, and television director.
That range of roles gave his career a particular breadth. As both a director and a producer, Levin engaged with the practical and creative dimensions of putting films together, while his work as a screenwriter placed him inside the construction of story and language. His television directing extended that work into another format, and across these overlapping capacities he assembled a body of work in the American film and television landscape.
Among the projects he directed, Slam earned a significant distinction. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, one of the most prominent recognitions available within that festival's competition. The prize placed Slam among a select body of films acknowledged at Sundance, and it stands as a concrete and documented marker of Levin's work as a director.
Working from his New York origins and shaped by his years at Wesleyan University, Levin continued to operate across the interlocking roles of director, producer, screenwriter, and television director. The Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, awarded for Slam, remains among the most clearly documented recognitions associated with his career as an American filmmaker working in English.
Quotes by Marc Levin
Their initial reaction was, 'You should burn that book. You should bury it. The last thing you want to do is a documentary about it,
Excuse me Marty, I wanted to do a gonzo film without talking heads, experts, academics, and pundits like you.
It's just not fear and ignorance, obviously that's where hate begins, ... There are a lot of intelligent people, a lot of people who are confused and there are a lot of people who suspect they don't know the real story, and on that I empathize with them.
At one point, I thought that maybe humor was the best way to deal with it. I figured maybe I should get 12 old Jewish comedians, you know, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, to sit around a table and have them riff off 'The Protocols.
My film is a journey into the face of, into the heart of, hate, ... I want to show the film on the West Bank, I want the film shown in Indonesia .Ê.Ê.