Storm Lake

Risius brings over 25 years experience as DP on such projects as Generation Wealth (Sundance 2018) and The Devil Came on Horseback (Sundance 2007), and as Field Producer/DP on Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and Parts Unknown. He grew up on a hog farm outside Buffalo Center, Iowa, and knows this northwest corner of the state as few do.

Levison is an Emmy and Peabody-winning independent producer in NYC. Her most recently produced film, WOMEN IN BLUE, about gender, race and violence in America through the eyes of female police officers with the Minneapolis Police Department, is being shown as a “Work in Progress” at AFI DOCS 2020. That film will broadcast on Independent Lens in 2021. MADE IN BOISE, premiered at AFI DOCS 2019, was the series opener of Independent Lens’ 2019/2020 season, and is currently available internationally. Previously produced projects include the Emmy-nominated Personal Statement (PBS 2018) and 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide (HBO 2017). Levison is a co-founder of the Documentary Producers Alliance, faculty with SVA’s MFA program in Social Documentary Film, and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.