Gary Leva
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Gary Leva
Biography
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.
Known For
Crew
(2020)
We Met At Midway - Two Survivors Remember
Director, Producer
(2020)
(2020)
The Men of Midway
Editor, Director
(2020)
Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission
Producer, Editor
(2020)
(2020)
(2019)
(2019)
(2019)
Making Mothra
Director
(2019)
Monsters are Real
Director
(2019)
(2019)
Reimagining Rodan
Director
(2019)
Creating Ghidorah
Director
(2018)
Reimagining The Met Gala
Director
(2018)
(2018)
Ocean's Team 3.0
Director
(2016)
(2015)
One Soldier's Story: The Journey of American Sniper
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
(2015)
(2013)
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Producer, Editor, Director
(2013)
The Fugitive: Thrill of the Chase
Director, Producer
(2013)
Cabaret: The Musical That Changed Musicals
Director of Photography, Writer, Producer
(2012)
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
Producer, Writer, Director
(2012)
(2012)
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
Producer, Director
(2011)
Turning Like Clockwork
Director, Producer
(2011)
Clint Eastwood's West
Producer, Director
(2009)
(2009)
(2009)
(2009)
(2009)
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
Director, Producer
(2009)
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
Producer, Editor, Director
(2008)
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Director, Producer
(2008)
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
Director, Producer
(2008)
Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential'
Producer, Director
(2008)
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
Director, Producer
(2008)
(2008)
Alma: The Master's Muse
Director
(2008)
(2008)
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Director, Producer
(2008)
Saul Bass: Title Champ
Director
(2008)
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Director, Producer
(2008)
An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County'
Director, Producer
(2008)
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
Director, Producer
(2008)
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
Director, Producer
(2008)
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
Director, Producer
(2008)
The Craft of Dirty Harry
Director, Producer
(2008)
(2008)
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
Director, Producer
(2007)
Fog City Mavericks
Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
(2007)
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
Director, Producer
(2007)
(2007)
(2007)
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Director, Producer
(2007)
(2007)
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Producer, Director
(2007)
(2006)
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
Writer, Director, Producer
(2006)
Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
Producer, Writer, Director
(2006)
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
Director
(2006)
Welcome to the Big House
Director
(2006)
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Director, Producer
(2006)
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
Producer, Director, Writer
(2006)
Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero
Director
(2006)
(2006)
(2006)
(2005)
Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema
Director, Producer
(2005)
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Producer, Writer, Editor, Director
(2004)
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Director, Producer, Editor
(2004)
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Producer, Director, Editor
(2004)
The Characters of Star Wars
Producer, Editor, Writer
(2001)
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Writer
(2000)
(2000)
Inside 'Octopussy'
Editor
(2000)
(1997)
Plan B
Director, Writer