Talent Guide
Mark Levinson
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- Discipline:Director, Writer
- Program Year:Fast Track 2016, Grants and Awards 2016
Bio
Before embarking on his film career, Mark Levinson earned a doctoral degree in particle physics from the University of California at Berkeley. In the film world, he became a specialist in the post-production writing and recording of dialogue known as ADR. He has worked closely with such directors as Anthony Minghella, Francis Coppola, Tom Tykwer, Milos Forman, and Kathryn Bigelow and with some of the top actors in the film industry, including Jack Nicholson, Nicole Kidman, Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Juliette Binoche, Liam Neeson, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Clare Danes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke and Robin Wright. He is the writer/producer/director of the narrative feature film Prisoner of Time, which examined the lives of former Russian dissident artists after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and had an acclaimed premiere at the Moscow International Film Festival. His original screenplay Goddess was selected for presentation at the Institute for International Film Financing. Most recently, he directed and produced the award-winning documentary feature Particle Fever about the discovery of the Higgs boson, the so-called “God Particle” at the Large Hadron Collider experiment outside of Geneva.