Jerry Levine, Filmmaker

On Location, Negev Desert

An Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, documentary producer, investigative reporter, and news anchor whose career began 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. His work has been commissioned by PBS and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

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 University, 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, currently airing on PBS, received two Emmy Awards from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

His latest projects are One In A Million (https://one-inamillion.com/trailer) and From Cuba To America — an initiative of Jerry’s Miami Legacy Film Project — world-premiering at the 2026 Miami Jewish Film Festival. The film features music by Emilio Estefan — who also appears in the film — and in-depth conversations with iconic American designer Tommy Hilfiger and legendary Wall Street investor Carl Icahn.

Jerry produces independent documentary films for PBS, American Public Television, and others. Humanitarian fundraising films for leading international nonprofit institutions. Sentencing and mitigation films for federal and national defense attorneys. He also recently completed a project for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, documenting the historical significance of Jewish American Heritage Month. He has created non-broadcast legacy family documentaries for some of America’s most influential families, including the Rohrs, Falics, Nymans, and the Feldenkreis families.

His philanthropic fundraising films have 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, Friends of Israeli Defense Forces, WIZO, Aish HaTorah, Gift of Life, Women of Tomorrow, The Shul, Chabad-Lubavitch, and many others.

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 Gorbachev, Yitzchak Rabin, Margaret Thatcher and Peter Fonda.

Jerry’s signature storytelling style is highly regarded for its emotional sensitivity, powerful music scores, and cinematic approach. His unique skill set extends behind the lens as a documentary cinematographer, and into the edit suite as a professional editor and media composer. One of the first non-linear editors in the U.S., he bought his first 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 Bay Harbor Islands in South Florida, and a member of the National Press Photographers Association, Jerry has field produced projects in Israel, Sweden, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Singapore, Canada, Ukraine, Jordan, Italy, South Africa — even the barren outback of Australia and the depths of the Negev Desert.