Marc Levin is an award-winning flimmaker of independent films, episodic television and documentaries.

His enormous body of work includes a 20-year relationship with HBO, producing 12 films for their America Undercover series that garnered him Emmy and CableACE awards.

For Showtime, he executive produced the verite-styled television series Street Time, directing 10 episodes.

His Twilight Los Angeles was an adaptation of Anna Deavere Smith’s one-woman show as he fused a Broadway play with a documentary look at the L.A. riots. It became the opening film of the International Human Rights Film Festival at Lincoln Festival.

Marc’s Hard Times: Lost on Long Island is a powerful, searing look at white-collar professionals struggling with unemployment, notions of suicide and trying to survive the great recession of our time.

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