Member:
Media Group
Professional Service:
Financial Consultant
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BUSINESS BIO:
Louise Levison is President of Business Strategies
(moviemoney.com), a consulting firm that specializes in
creating business plans for film and consulting on other
aspects of independent filmmaking and distribution. She is
the author of Filmmakers & Financing: Business Plans for
Independents (Sixth Edition, due October 2009, Focal Press)
and publisher/editor of The Film Entrepreneur: A Newsletter
for the Independent Filmmaker and Investors. Levison's
clients have raised money for low-budget films such as The
Blair Witch Project, the most profitable independent film in
history, and for companies raising as much as $300 million.
Other clients' projects include: Bailey, Moving Midway,
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman,
Sandstorm, High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story, Protecting the
King, The Open Road, Dinner Rush, Paradise (aka Little
Chicago), The First of May, Michael Winslow Live and
California Dreaming. Among her corporate clients are Danny
Glover's Louverture Films (Trouble the Water, a nominee for
the 2008 Best Documentary Academy Award, Toussaint) and his
Louverture Film Fund I, The Pamplin Film Company
(Crimebusters), Majestic World Entertainment, WhiteLight
Entertainment (The Best Christmas Pageant Ever), Summitworks
Film Fund 1, Audience Alliance Motion Picture Studios
(Broken Hill), Monterrey Pictures Entertainment, Tokuma
International Ltd (Shall We Dance and Princess Mononoke) and
the Ilya Salkind Company. Levison is also an affiliate of
the Berlin-based consulting company Peacefulfish
(peacefulfish.com).
Levison is an Instructor in the Extension Program at UCLA
and has been a Visiting Professor at the Taipei (Taiwan)
National University of the Arts, Chapman University (Orange
County, CA) and the University of Montana (Missoula). She
has presented seminars and/or been on panels for Film
Independent (FIND), the Sundance Film Festival, Producer's
Guild of America, Galway (Ireland) Film Fleadh, National
Association of Broadcasters, Hollywood Black Film Festival,
Florida Media Market, American Black Film Festival, National
Association Of Latino Independent Producers, Texas
Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts, Georgia Film and Video
Center, Austin Film Festival, Florida Motion Picture and
Television Association, Cincinnati Film Commission, Arizona
Film Commission, Independent Cinema Expo, Women in Film,
California Lawyers for the Arts, Nashville Film Festival,
The Learning Annex (New York and Los Angeles) and
others.
Prior to working in the entertainment industry, Levison
worked for the Stanford Research Institute, the American
Iron and Steel Institute, two for-profit hospital
corporations and as a stockbroker. She also co-hosted a
call-in radio show (heard on 100 stations in the United
States, Canada and Mexico) on the Business Radio Network for
three years and is a former stockbroker. She is on the
Advisory Board of CineWomen and a member of Film Independent
(Los Angeles), Women in Film, the International Documentary
Association and the U.S. Internet Industry Association. Her
graduate education includes an M.A. in Asian Area Studies
from New York University and an M.B.A. in Finance from
California State University, Dominguez Hills.
PERSONAL BIO:
- Name: Louise Levison
- Place of birth: Cincinati, Ohio
- Parents: Both born in Cincinnati
- Father: Henry W. Levison - his grandparents from
Germany
- Mother; F. S. Levison (my mother's first and maiden
names are unusual and passwords so I'm leaving them out)
- her parents from Odessa, Russia
- Single
EDUCATION:
- High School - Walnut Hills High School, Cincinnati,
Ohio 6-year (grades 7-12) public
classical/college-preparatory school established in 1875
with students drawn from the entire city
- Simmons College, Boston, MA - BA
- New York University (NYC) - MA Asian Area
Studies
- California University Dominguez Hills (CA) - MBA
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
- Adopt-A-Native-Elder Program - based in Park City,
Utah the organization supports the traditional Elders who
live in the cultural and spiritual traditions of Native
Peoples who live in remote portions of Utah and Northern
Arizona. The Program provides food, simple medicines,
clothing, firewood, fabric and yarns to help these Elders
live on the Land in their traditional lifestyle. It also
provides filled backpacks for school children who on the
reservations.
- Animal care facilities in Los Angeles and in areas
devastated by natural disasters such as Hurricanes
Katrina and Ike.
HOBBIES
- Poker - playing in both tournaments and casino cash
games. In May 2008, I played in my first World Series of
Poker Tournament.
- Collecting Native American art
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