Barry Levy

Barry Louis Levy (born September 4, 1972) is an American screenwriter best known as the writer of the 2008 film Vantage Point.

Career Despite studying history and psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, Levy says he had always wanted to attend film school, and when he discovered the university lacked any kind of film program he decided upon an interdisciplinary major, and graduating summa cum laude after making a feature film for his thesis. He used this film to apply for a place at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts in the two-year masters Peter Stark Producing Program. After graduating, he became the assistant to the head of the animation company Nelvana's Los Angeles office, He is Jewish and has taught Hebrew and social justice at Temple Israel in Los Angeles in between writing jobs, having attended Greenhills School in Ann Arbor, Michigan himself.