Gary Leva
Directing
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Filmmaker and film historian Gary Leva has distinguished himself as the creative force behind scores of documentaries, broadcast programs and Special Features, many of them focused on the cinematic arts. His feature documentary, Fog City Mavericks, which highlights 100 years in the history of San Francisco's vibrant filmmaking community, had its world premiere at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival prior to its continuing life on cable television and disc.
Leva's documentaries have made a lasting contribution to the history of film. His award- winning A Legacy of Filmmakers premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and received a New York Film Society screening at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. This documentary illuminates the creation of Francis Ford Coppola's landmark film company American Zoetrope, set against the changing landscape of American cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film is now a part of the curricula at several top universities.
Leva's celebrated documentaries on the cinema of George Lucas span the entire range of Lucas' career, from his earliest student films to his first feature, THX 1138, to the Star Wars series and beyond. His collections of documentaries on filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood and Stanley Kubrick are often regarded as the top anthology on each of these master's works.
Having earned a distinguished reputation as a leader in his field, Leva continues to work with the top filmmakers of our time, including Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Robert Redford, Oliver Stone and many others.
Beyond the world of cinema, Leva has produced documentaries on subjects as varied as the struggle for investigative journalists to stay relevant in the Internet age and the ways in which the achievements of Alexander the Great are reflected in our modern lives.
Other projects include the award-winning narrative feature film, Plan B, starring Jon Cryer, the mockumentary R2-D2: Beneath the Dome, broadcast nationally on Fox, and 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year, broadcast nationally on TCM.
Leva is an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
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Filmography
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Directing
50 credits
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Clint Eastwood's West
The Craft of Dirty Harry
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Godzilla: King of the Monsters - Godzilla 2.0
Reimagining Rodan
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
Fog City Mavericks
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
Plan B
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
Saul Bass: Title Champ
Turning Point: The Legacy of Midway
Hollywood Helps the Cause
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Making Mothra
Reimagining The Met Gala
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
Alma: The Master's Muse
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
Turning Like Clockwork
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
The Men of Midway
Ocean's Team 3.0
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
One Soldier's Story: The Journey of American Sniper
The Fugitive: Thrill of the Chase
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Restoring Spartacus
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
Producing
30 credits
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Clint Eastwood's West
The Craft of Dirty Harry
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
Hollywood Helps the Cause
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
The Characters of Star Wars
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
Turning Like Clockwork
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
WB 100th Behind the Shield
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Fugitive: Thrill of the Chase
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
Writing
12 credits
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
The Force Is with Them: The Legacy of 'Star Wars'
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Fog City Mavericks
Plan B
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
The Characters of Star Wars
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
One Soldier's Story: The Journey of American Sniper
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Other credits
7 credits
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
The Devil and Father Amorth
Inside The Living Daylights
The Men of Midway
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Inside 'Octopussy'
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