Jeremy S. Levine

Jeremy S. Levine is an award-winning filmmaker exploring themes of race, class, and trauma—unearthing the buried tragedies of a society in active denial of its own past. Levine earned an MFA from the Integrated Media Arts program at Hunter College in 2020, and taught as an adjunct professor at Hunter as well. An Emmy award-winning filmmaker and two-time Sundance Institute fellow, Levine has screened his work at more than 100 film festivals around the world, including the Berlinale, Sundance, and Tribeca, receiving more than 20 festival awards. His work has streamed on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Sundance Now, Starz, and Hulu, as well as broadcast nationally in nine countries.

He co-directed and produced The Panola Project in 2021 with Rachael DeCruz, chronicling the efforts of Dorothy Oliver to vaccinate her small town of Panola, Alabama, from the convenience store she runs out of a mobile home. Nearly 99 percent of adults in her town have received the Covid vaccination shot in a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. The Panola Project was an official selection of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, Full Frame, BlackStar, Hot Docs, and the DOC NYC Shortlist. The film received six Jury Prizes, three Audience Awards, and two Grand Jury Prizes, including the Oscar-qualifying Best Documentary Short Award at the Florida Film Festival.

Levine’s other documentaries include Good Fortune (2009), Walking the Line (2005), Am I Next (2014), and For Akheem (2017). He is currently developing projects exploring issues including the criminal justice system, the unresolved legacy of white supremacy, forced separation, and the representation of mental health in horror films.