Beth Levison

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.

Provincetown International Film Festival NYWIFT Award

Woodstock Film Festival Best Documentary Feature

Oaxaca FilmFest Best Documentary Feature

Miami Film Festival Best Documentary Feature

Zurich Film Festival International Documentary Film

Doc NYC Special Jury Prize

A Child's Garden of Poetry

2006

2005