Richard Levien

'Richard Levien' (qv) has been writing, directing and editing award-winning films for 11 years. Levien's short "Immersion", about a ten-year-old boy from Mexico who struggles to fit in at his new school in the U.S., premiered at Slamdance in 2009. "Immersion" won the "No Violence" award at the Ann Arbor film festival, and Best Bay Area short at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The film received a Resolution of the California Legislature, and is used by more than 50 school districts and universities to support education about English Language Learners. In 2009 Levien won the inaugural SFFilm / Rainin Filmmaking Grant, for screenwriting on this film, Collisions. Since then the project won a further three SFFilm/ Rainin Filmmaking Grants, for development, production and post production.Levien's editing credits include "D Tour", which won Best Bay Area documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and appeared on Independent Lens. He edited the documentary "A Fragile Trust", which aired on Independent Lens in 2014. He was a member of the Center for Investigative Reporting's Post Script team (doing motion graphics), which was nominated for a national Emmy in 2016.Levien is from New Zealand. He has a PhD in theoretical physics from Princeton University.::'Richard Levien' (qv)