Beth Levison Filmmaker (Storm Lake)

Beth Levison 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, won the Audience Award at AFI DOCS, and 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/Independent Lens), MADE IN BOISE (2019 AFI DOCS 2019/Independent Lens), Emmy-nominated PERSONAL STATEMENT (2018 AFI DOCS/PBS), 32 PILLS: MY SISTER’S SUICIDE (2017 Hot Docs/HBO), 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.