Beth Levison is an independent Emmy and Peabody-winning filmmaker based in NYC. Levison’s most recent film, STORM LAKE, which she directed and produced alongside director/DP Jerry Risius, is about one family’s efforts to unite and inform their Iowan farming town through their biweekly newspaper—at the very same time that the paper hangs on by a thread. The film launched at the 2021 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and is headed to national public television in fall 2021. Prior to that, she produced WOMEN IN BLUE (2020 Tribeca Film Festival) about gender, violence and race in American policing, and Emmy-nominated MADE IN BOISE (AFI DOCS 2019), which features four women who carry babies for strangers in Boise, Idaho – the unofficial surrogacy capital of the U.S. Additional producing credits include PERSONAL STATEMENT (PBS 2018), 32 PILLS: MY SISTER’S SUICIDE (HBO 2017), and her documentary directorial debut LEMON (PBS 2011). Consulting Producer credit include CHARM CIRCLE (Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021), COOKED (DOC NYC 2018) and MARINA ABRAMOVIC: THE ARTIST IS PRESENT (Sundance 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, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and mom to Ben and Gabe.Be