Micky Levy

{{Infobox person

| name = Micky Levy

| native_name = מיקי לוי

| native_name_lang = he

| birth_place = Tel Aviv, Israel

| years_active = 2003–present

| occupation = Director, Writer, Producer

}}

Micky Levy ({{Langx|he|מיקי לוי}}) is an Israeli-American film director, screenwriter, and actress.

Early life

Micky Levy was born in Israel and grew up in Eilat. Her first book of poetry, White Stoplights, was published when she was 15. Micky arrived in Los Angeles when she was 17 with just $700 in her pocket.{{cite web |url= http://www.moviemaker.com/articles-moviemaking/micky-levy-rails-ties-20071221 |title=Micky Levy Rails & Ties |date=11 January 2008 |accessdate=October 24, 2015}}

Career

Micky started her career acting in independent horror films. She worked for Academy Award Nominated screenwriter Arthur A. Ross.{{cite web |url= https://howardcasner.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/hey-we-all-had-to-start-somewhere-an-interview-with-screenwriterdirectorproducer-and-author-of-rails-ties-micky-levy/ |title=Hey We All Had to Start Somewhere |date=19 January 2015 |accessdate=October 24, 2015}}

Micky’s first produced film was the short, 2 on U, that she wrote and produced with Dayna Cussler.{{cite web |url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364911/ |title=2 on U [IMDb] |website=IMDb |accessdate=October 24, 2015}} Micky's television pilot, LAM, won the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition.{{cite web |url= http://www.moviebytes.com/contestDetail.cfm?tab=tab3&ContestNumber=210&StoryID=1594 |title=Sctriptapalooza TV Writing Competition |accessdate=October 24, 2015}}

Micky wrote the feature script Rails & Ties, a Warner Bros. film. Alison Eastwood directed the movie which starred Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden and Miles Heizer. Rails & Ties premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007.{{cite web |url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822849 |title=Rails & Ties [IMDb] |website=IMDb |accessdate=October 24, 2015}}

Micky wrote Lifetime (TV Network)’s “Amish Grace”, starring Kimberly Williams-Paisley, for which she received a Humanitas Prize nomination and won the Epiphany Prize.{{cite web |url= https://variety.com/2010/tv/news/2010-humanitas-award-finalists-announced-14475 |title=2010 Humanitas Award Finalists Announced |date=15 July 2010 |accessdate=October 24, 2015}}{{cite web |url= http://www.charismanews.com/culture/31705-moviemakers-discuss-spritually-inspiring-films |title="Moviemakers Discuss Spirtually [sic] Inspiring Films " |work=Charisma News |accessdate=October 24, 2015}} Micky wrote “Amish Grace” under the pseudonym Sylvie White. The film was co-written by Teena Booth.{{cite web | url= https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0506551/awards?ref_=nm_ql_2 |title= Micky Levy Awards [IMDb] |website= IMDb |accessdate=October 24, 2015}}

Micky wrote, directed and produced the documentary short "The First Time: Writing and Sex" that was lensed by Svetlana Cvetko.{{cite web |url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5124746 |title=The First Time: Writing and Sex [IMDb] |website=IMDb |accessdate=October 24, 2015}}

Micky wrote, directed and produced the narrative short film Page’s Great and Grand Escape. The short played the festival circuit including the Newport Beach Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival and HollyShorts Film Festival .{{cite web |url= http://pagethemovie.com |title= Page the Movie |accessdate= October 24, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170427114053/http://pagethemovie.com/ |archive-date= April 27, 2017 |url-status= dead }}

Micky’s adaptation of Caryl Phillips’ novel, Dancing in the Dark (novel), placed in the top ten of the Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition.{{cite web |url=http://www.nantucketfilmfestival.org/screenwriting/competitions/ |title=Screenplay Finalists Announced |url-status=dead |accessdate=October 24, 2015 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151023111755/http://www.nantucketfilmfestival.org/screenwriting/competitions/ |archivedate=October 23, 2015 }}

Filmography

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! Year

! Film

! Director

! Writer

! Note

2002

| 2 on U

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Short film

2007

| Rails & Ties

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/movies/26rail.html|title=A Collision Course and Its Outcome|work=The New York Times |date=26 October 2007 |access-date=2019-10-15 |last1=Dargis |first1=Manohla }}

2010

| Amish Grace

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| TV movie

2013

| The First Time: Writing & Sex

| {{yes}}

| Documentary

2014

| Page's Great and Grand Escape

| {{yes}}