Film Biography - Laura Levine
(director/producer/writer/camera)
Filmmaker Laura Levine's eclectic background as a cross-disciplinary
visual artist has led her to pursue a variety of cinematic
projects. Her first documentary feature film, Digging for Dutch: The Search for the Lost Treasure
of Dutch Schultz, had its International Premiere as an official selection
of the
Edinburgh International Film Festival
in August 2002, and its World Premiere at the 2001 Woodstock Film Festival, where it won the Kodak-sponsored
2001 Torchlight Award
for Best Feature-Length Film, presented by the New
York City Film Project. The film has been the subject
of feature articles in the New Yorker, the
New York Times, The London Sunday Telegraph, Harvard
Magazine,
and the National Examiner.
Levine’s first documentary short film,
Peekaboo Sunday
-- the brief and hilarious tale of one woman and her
six disobedient miniature horses—had its World
Premiere at the
2001 Sundance Film Festival
as an official selection in the Short Film competition,
and has gone on to screen at the Florida Film Festival, the Atlanta Film & Video Festival, the Lake Placid Film Forum, the Short Attention Span Film Festival, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the New York Comedy Film Festival, among others.
Before trying her hand at documentary filmmaking, Levine's
career as a music photographer in New York during the heyday
of punk rock, hip-hop and new wave enabled her to work with
everyone from Björk to James Brown for magazines such
as Rolling Stone, The New York Rocker, and England’s
Sounds. She directed music videos for Lisa Germano
and Giant Sand, and worked with R.E.M. and other Athens, Georgia
musicians on the Super-8 underground classic, Just Like
A Movie (1984).
An award-winning self-taught illustrator, Levine has created
three children's books: Wig!, with the B-52's,
Shake, Rattle & Roll: The Founders of Rock & Roll,
and Honky-Tonk Heroes and Hillbilly Angels.
Levine’s illustrations have appeared in the pages of
Time, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker
as well on the covers of numerous books and CDs.
Levine’s paintings have been exhibited worldwide and
are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of
International Folk Art in Santa Fe, the House of Blues,
and the Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
in Rome. Her work is in numerous private collections,
including those of Harry Shearer & Judith Owen, Nora Ephron,
Lisa Bonet, Laurie & Larry David, and Cher. Levine’s
paintings from Shake, Rattle & Roll were exhibited
at the Experience Music Project (EMP) in Seattle,
the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland
(for a four month solo exhibition), Yard Dog Folk Art,
and the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas. Levine’s
work in animation has been screened as part of the 2000
Animation Festival at the Museum of Television &
Radio, and she was commissioned to create and develop
an animated series pilot for MTV.
In her spare time, Levine, who grew up in New York
City's Chinatown and graduated from Harvard University,
is the proprietress of Homer & Langley's Mystery Spot, an unusual antique/ junk/oddities shop in Phoenicia,
New York.
Scott Healy - composer
New York City composer
Scott Healy
is best known for his keyboard work in the
house band on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, appearing nightly on NBC. He has
also distinguished himself through his composing and
arranging, as well as live
and studio playing. His has performed, written for,
and recorded with a diverse
range or jazz, rock, and r& b artists such as
Bruce Springsteen, B.B. King,
Ricky Martin, Christina Aguliera, Al Green, Branford
Marsalis,
and
The Band
to name a few. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Scott studied
at Eastman School graduating with a degree in composition
and piano. He and his family split their time between
New York City and the Catskills.
Digging for Dutch
is his first feature-length film score.
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