Jeremy Levine
Director/Producer
Levine's work has been screened in dozens of film festivals around the world, broadcast nationally in five countries, and recognized with several awards for production and human rights. He is director/producer of Walking the Line and is currently producing the Sundance Institute-supported film GOOD FORTUNE, a feature documentary confronting international aid in East Africa. In addition to his production credits, Levine worked as an editor on EVERYTHING'S COOL—a feature-length documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival—and oversaw completion of the forthcoming outreach DVD. He began his career with WORKING FILMS, a non-profit organization that links documentary films with on-the-ground activism and volunteered at the Educational Media Agency in Addis Ababa where he produced educational videos for Ethiopian schools. Levine was the recipient of the prestigious Roy H. Park Scholarship for communications at Ithaca College. He co-founded TRANSIENT PICTURES with Landon Van Soest and is co-director of the BROOKLYN FILMMAKERS COLLECTIVE.
Landon Van Soest
Director/Producer
Van Soest's original documentaries have been called "crucial and engrossing," "stylish, sophisticated," and "highly engaging." He is director/producer of the award-winning film Walking the Line, a feature documentary about vigilantes along the U.S.-Mexico border. The film has screened at film festivals around the world and has received national broadcast in five countries. In his short career in New York City, Van Soest has worked on documentary projects for NBC, PBS, Sundance Film Festival, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and Sundance Channel. He founded TRANSIENT PICTURES in 2005 with Jeremy Levine and is a founding member of the BROOKLYN FILMMAKERS COLLECTIVE. Van Soest holds a Fine Arts degree in Non-Fiction Film Production from Ithaca College and has conducted extensive research on economic development in East Africa with the School for International Training. He received a Fulbright Fellowship in the Creative and performing arts to produce GOOD FORTUNE. The film was recently awarded a production grant from the Sundance Institute and a Fledgling Fund Award for “Socially Conscious Documentary” at the 2007 Independent Feature Market.