Beth Levison is an Academy Award-nominated American independent documentary film producer and director based in New York City. Previously, she had a career in unscripted television. Life and career Levison was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and went to Middlebury College.
Her most recently-completed producing effort, A Photographic Memory, won the 2025 Independent Spirits: Truer Than Fiction Award and was acquired for distribution by Kino Lorber. Previous to that, she produced The Martha Mitchell Effect, about Watergate whistleblower and Republican cabinet wife Martha Mitchell, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, launched on Netflix, and was nominated for a 2023 Academy Award (Best Documentary Short category). Storm Lake, which she directed alongside DP Jerry Risius and also produced, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2022, and was nominated for a Peabody Award and a 2022 News and Documentary Emmy Award. Her other producing credits include Women in Blue (Independent Lens, 2021), News and Documentary Emmy-nominated Made in Boise (Independent Lens, 2020), News and Documentary Emmy-nominated Personal Statement (PBS, 2018), and 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide (HBO, 2017).
Her executive producer credits include Land with No Rider, which premiered at the 2025 True/False Film Festival, the two-time British Independent Film Award winner Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) now streaming on MUBI, My Sweet Land (2024) and With Peter Bradley (Slamdance 2023).
Levison is the founder of Hazel Pictures and the co-founder of the Documentary Producers Alliance. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was producing faculty with the School of Visual Arts’ Social Documentary Film Program from 2014-2020, and currently teaches as guest faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.
Selected filmography YearTitle Contribution Note 2025 Land with No Rider Executive producer Documentary 2024 Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? Line producer Documentary Series 2024 After the Deluge Executive producer Short film 2024 My Sweet Land Executive producer Documentary 2024 Grand Theft Hamlet Executive producer Documentary 2024 A Photographic Memory Producer Documentary 2023 With Peter Bradley Consulting producer Documentary 2022 The Martha Mitchell Effect Producer Documentary 2021 Storm Lake Director and producer Documentary 2021 Women in Blue Producer Documentary 2021 Charm Circle Consulting producer Documentary 2019 Made in Boise Producer Documentary 2019 The Boxers of Brule Consulting producer Documentary 2019 Cooked: Survival by Zip Code Consulting producer Documentary 2018 In the Land of Pomegranates Consulting producer Documentary 2018 Personal Statement Co-producer Documentary 2017 32 Pills: My Sister's Suicide Producer Documentary 2015 The Trials of Spring Producer Documentary 2012 Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present Consulting producer Documentary 2011 Lemon Director and producer Documentary
Awards and nominations YearResultAwardCategoryWorkRef.2023NominatedAcademy AwardsBest Documentary Short FilmThe Martha Mitchell Effect2021 WonAFI Docs FestivalAudience AwardStorm Lake WonProvincetown International Film FestivalNYWIFT Award WonWoodstock Film FestivalBest Documentary Feature2012 WonOaxaca FilmFestBest Documentary FeatureLemon NominatedMiami Film FestivalBest Documentary Feature2011 WonZurich Film FestivalInternational Documentary Film NominatedDoc NYCSpecial Jury Prize WonPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Children's ProgramA Child's Garden of Poetry2006 NominatedClassical Baby2005 Won
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