Jerry Levine, Filmmaker

On Location, Negev Desert

An Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, documentary producer and investigative reporter and news anchor who began his career in 1982, Jerry has been the recipient of more than seventy national film and television awards - including the coveted Columbia University duPont Award for excellence in broadcast journalism.

Jerry developed his storytelling instincts as an on-air correspondent and producer for Post-Newsweek's national documentaries unit. A state champion public speaker who studied debate at Harvard, Jerry first became a popular on-air reporter, investigative journalist and anchorman for WPLG (ABC Miami), WPTV (NBC Palm Beach), and WJXT (CBS Jacksonville). He then founded his own production companies - Higher Authority Productions in 1992 - and Levine & Co. Creative Television & Film in 2009.

His broadcast documentaries include Israel’s Forgotten Heroes, Windows To The Soul, The Smell of Money, Still Waters Run Deep, Generations In The Sun, Inspired, Addicted Nation, and Echoes of the Holocaust. My Survivor, on PBS stations now, received two Emmy Awards from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. His latest project is One In A Million (https://one-inamillion.com/trailer).

Jerry produces independent documentary films for PBS and American Public television. Humanitarian fund raising films for Jewish organizations worldwide. Sentencing and mitigation films for defense attorneys and federal judges. And non-broadcast family documentaries for some of America’s most successful individuals.

His philanthropic fund raising films have helped raised hundreds of millions of dollars for some of the world’s most important and prestigious humanitarian clients. Among his seminal clients: the Weizmann Institute of Science, Chabad-Lubavitch, Talmudic University and Aish HaTorah.

Jerry has produced biographical films for philanthropists like Sheldon and Dr. Miriam Adelson, Philadelphia Eagles owner Norman Braman, pop artist Romero Britto, Harvard law Professor Alan Dershowitz, international humanitarian leaders Nily & Fima Falic, Director Brett Ratner, and former talk show legend Larry King.

He has also crafted commercial projects for Universal Pictures, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Burger King, Hotels.com and the Backstreet Boys. He has interviewed and created projects for world leaders and celebrities, including Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen, Matisyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu, Barbara Walters, Sumner Redstone, Mikhail Gorbechev, Yitzchak Rabin, Margaret Thatcher and Peter Fonda.

Jerry’s signature storytelling style is highly regarded for its emotional sensitivity and dynamic cinematic technique. His unique skill set extends behind the lens as a documentary cinematographer, and beyond that - into the edit suite as an expert editor and media composer. One of the first non-linear editors in the U.S., he owned an Apple Macintosh in 1984 and worked with Avid Technology's software engineers as they developed non-linear editing and digital video technologies that would transform the fabric of filmmaking.

Based in South Florida, and a member of the National Press Photographers Association, Jerry has field produced projects in Israel, Sweden, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Canada, Ukraine, Jordan, Italy, South Africa - even the outback of Australia and Negev Desert.