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 produces independent documentary films for PBS and American Public television. Sentencing and mitigation films for defense attorneys and federal judges. Non-broadcast family documentaries and mini-series for some of America’s most interesting and successful individuals. Commercial and humanitarian projects for Universal Pictures, Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Weizmann Institute of Science, 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 cutting edge 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 film and television.

Jerry developed his storytelling instincts as an on-air correspondent and producer for Post-Newsweek's national documentaries unit. And he has produced private family documentaries and biographical films for philanthropists Sheldon and Dr. Miriam Adelson, Hollywood Director Brett Ratner, Philadelphia Eagles owner Norman Braman, pop artist Romero Britto, Harvard law Professor Alan Dershowitz, international humanitarian leaders Nily & Fima Falic, and former talk show legend Larry King.

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, his latest project, received two Emmy Awards from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

A state champion public speaker who studied in Cambridge and debated at Harvard, Jerry would become a popular on-air reporter, investigative journalist and anchorman for WPLG (ABC Miami), WPTV (NBC Palm Beach), and WJXT (CBS Jacksonville). He founded his own production companies - Higher Authority Productions in 1992 - and Levine & Co. Creative Television & Film in 2009.

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.

Based in Florida, Jerry can work with clients anywhere in the world. He has directed and field produced film and video projects in Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, Israel, Malaysia, Italy, South Africa and even in the outback of Australia and Negev Desert. Today he can remotely interview clients and field produce major projects virtually anywhere with internet, using advanced techniques and protocols that protect both clients and crew from the risks of Covid and variants.