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Beth Levison
Beth Levison at the Academy Awards, 2023
Born
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation(s)Producer, director
Years active1993–present
SpouseHenry Sidel

Beth Levison is an Academy Award-nominated American independent documentary film producer and director based in New York City.[1][2] Previously, she had a career in unscripted television.

Life and career

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Levison was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and went to Middlebury College.[3][4]

Her most recently-completed producing effort, A Photographic Memory, won the 2025 Independent Spirits: Truer Than Fiction Award and and was acquired for distribution by Kino Lorber.[5][6] Previous to that, she produced The Martha Mitchell Effect, about Watergate whistleblower and Republican cabinet wife Martha Mitchell, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, launched on Netflix, and was nominated for a 2023 Academy Award (Best Documentary Short category). Storm Lake, which she directed alongside DP Jerry Risius and also produced, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2022, and was nominated for a Peabody Award and a 2022 News and Documentary Emmy Award.[7] Her other producing credits include Women in Blue (Independent Lens, 2021), News and Documentary Emmy-nominated Made in Boise (Independent Lens, 2020), News and Documentary Emmy-nominated Personal Statement (PBS, 2018), and 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide (HBO, 2017).

Her executive producer credits include Land with No Rider, which premiered at the 2025 True/False Film Festival, the two-time British Independent Film Award winner Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) now streaming on MUBI, My Sweet Land (2024) and With Peter Bradley (Slamdance 2023).[8]

Levison is the founder of Hazel Pictures and the co-founder of the Documentary Producers Alliance.[2] She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was producing faculty with the School of Visual Arts’ Social Documentary Film Program from 2014-2020, and currently teaches as guest faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.[9][2]

Selected filmography

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Year Title Contribution Note
2025 Land with No Rider Executive producer Documentary
2024 Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? Line producer Documentary Series
2024 After the Deluge Executive producer Short film
2024 My Sweet Land Executive producer Documentary
2024 Grand Theft Hamlet Executive producer Documentary
2024 A Photographic Memory Producer Documentary
2023 With Peter Bradley Consulting producer Documentary
2022 The Martha Mitchell Effect Producer Documentary
2021 Storm Lake Director and producer Documentary
2021 Women in Blue Producer Documentary
2021 Charm Circle Consulting producer Documentary
2019 Made in Boise Producer Documentary
2019 The Boxers of Brule Consulting producer Documentary
2019 Cooked: Survival by Zip Code Consulting producer Documentary
2018 In the Land of Pomegranates Consulting producer Documentary
2018 Personal Statement Co-producer Documentary
2017 32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide Producer Documentary
2015 The Trials of Spring Producer Documentary
2012 Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present Consulting producer Documentary
2011 Lemon Director and producer Documentary

Awards and nominations

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Year Result Award Category Work Ref.
2023 Nominated Academy Awards Best Documentary Short Film The Martha Mitchell Effect
2021 Won AFI Docs Festival Audience Award Storm Lake [10]
Won Provincetown International Film Festival NYWIFT Award [11]
Won Woodstock Film Festival Best Documentary Feature [12]
2012 Won Oaxaca FilmFest Best Documentary Feature Lemon
Nominated Miami Film Festival Best Documentary Feature [13]
2011 Won Zurich Film Festival International Documentary Film [14]
Nominated Doc NYC Special Jury Prize [15]
Won Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Children's Program A Child's Garden of Poetry [16]
2006 Nominated Classical Baby
2005 Won

References

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  1. ^ "Storm Lake: Screening and Q&A with Director Beth Levison". wamc.org. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  2. ^ a b c "Beth Levison". sarahlawrence.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  3. ^ "BIFF THINKS GLOBALLY, PRESENTS LOCALLY". ruralintelligence.com. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  4. ^ "BIFF THINKS GLOBALLY, PRESENTS LOCALLY". ruralintelligence.com. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  5. ^ "Spirit Awards Winners List: 'Anora' Wins Big, Taking Home Best Feature, Lead Performance and Director". variety.com. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  6. ^ "Oscar-Contending Documentary 'The Martha Mitchell Effect' Redeems A Watergate Figure Victimized In A Gaslighting Campaign". deadline.com. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  7. ^ "Peabody Nominations Include 'Summer Of Soul', 'Reservation Dogs', 'Colin In Black & White', 'Dopesick', 'Hacks'". Deadline Hollywood. 13 April 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  8. ^ "How the UK first-time directors of 'Grand Theft Hamlet' made a film within a game". screendaily.com. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  9. ^ "GLOBAL MEMBERSHIP AT A GLANCE". app.oscars.org. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  10. ^ "AFI DOCS Announces 2021 Award Winners". afi.com. 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  11. ^ "PROVINCETOWN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2021 WINNERS". provincetownfilm.org. 28 June 2021. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  12. ^ "22ND ANNUAL WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL". woodstockfilmfestival.org. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  13. ^ "Official Lineup of 29th Annual Miami International Film Festival of Miami Dade College to Include Star-Studded Premieres, Parties and Major Industry Events". miamifilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  14. ^ "COMPETITION WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED". zff.com. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  15. ^ "AND THE WINNER IS…". docnyc.net. 9 November 2011. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  16. ^ "Beth Levison". emmys.com. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
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