Beth Levison is an Emmy and Peabody-winning producer/director committed to storytelling and strengthening the documentary field.  Her 2022 producing effort, THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT (dirs. Anne Alvergue/Debra McClutchy, producing partner Judith Mizrachy), about Watergate whistleblower and Republican cabinet wife Martha Mitchell, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, launched on Netflix, and was nominated for a 2023 Academy Award (Best Documentary Short category).  Her previous film, STORM LAKE, which she directed alongside DP Jerry Risius and also produced, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, won the Audience Award at AFI DOCS, broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2022, and was nominated for a Peabody and an Emmy Award.  Other producing credits include the Independent Spirit Awards-winning A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY (a Kino Lorber release, 2025), WOMEN IN BLUE (Independent Lens, 2021) and 32 PILLS (HBO, 2017).  Executive producer credits include LAND WITH NO RIDER (True/False, 3035), the 2-time BIFA-winning GRAND THEFT HAMLET (MUBI, 2025), 3-time IDA Awards nominee, MY SWEET LAND (Sheffield, 2024) and WITH PETER BRADLEY (PBS, 2024). Levison is also the founder of Hazel Pictures, a production company that emphasizes mind-opening stories about women, artists, and the wild and wonderful folks out there who challenge the status quo; a consultant on numerous documentary films; a co-founder of the Documentary Producers Alliance; faculty with the department of Film and Moving Image Arts and Sarah Lawrence College; and a member of the Academy.