Gideon Levy, b.1969, is an Amsterdam-based independent award winning filmmaker and producer. He is a host for current affairs programs for Dutch Public Television. Levy’s films have been sold internationally and his films have been screened at festivals worldwide. His work frequently examines political and cultural power structures focusing on the place of the individual within those structures.

Levy’s investigative documentary film Lockerbie Revisited about the notorious bombing of Flight 103 over Scotland won the ‘Prix Europa” in Berlin in 2009 and was the ‘Gold World Winner’ at the New York Festival in 2011. The film was also nominated at Canada’s Banff World Media Festival in 2010 for the prestigious ‘Rockie Award for Investigative Journalism & Current Affairs’. The film was screened before the Scottish Parliament.

In 2013 another of his documentary series Levy and the Last Nazis led to the prosecution of Dutch SS volunteer Siert Bruins in Hagen, Germany.

Producer

In 1999, Gideon Levy Productions began operations in Amsterdam. It’s first fiction project was the short film Lot by director Tamar van den Dop. The film was the Dutch nominee for the Academy Awards in 2002 and won both the ‘Public’ and ‘Special Jury’ prizes at Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers, France.

In 2016 Gideon produced the documentary Unknown Brood by director Dennis Alink, which opened at the IDFA Festival in the Royal Carré Theatre and was the Dutch nominee in the festival’s Music competition .

The company also produced the documentary film Defending Brother No2 by Jorien van Nes, which was nominated for a ‘Golden Calf’ for Best Feature Documentary at the Dutch Film Festival, in 2017. The film, shot over a period over many years, followed the criminal defense team of lawyers defending Nuon Chea, accused of war crimes and atrocities while he was the second-in-command of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.