Jonathan A. Levine is an American film director and screenwriter.

Biography

Levine won the Audience Award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

 for his film The Wackness

The Wackness

The Wackness is a 2008 American coming of age drama film by Jonathan Levine and starring Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, and Olivia Thirlby. The film is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics and was released in the U.S. on July 3, 2008.-Plot:...

. In January 2010, it was announced that he will direct a project entitled Warm Bodies. It is based on a novel with the same name from writer Isaac Marion

Levine was also director Paul Schrader's assistant for a time before his own directorial career took off.

Director

• Shards (2004)
• Love Bytes (2005)
• All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
  All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
  All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is a 2006 American horror-thriller film, although it has also been described as a slasher film. Originally finished in 2006, the film premiered at a number of film festivals throughout 2006 and 2007. Notable premieres include Toronto Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival,...
  
  (2006)
• The Wackness
  The Wackness
  The Wackness is a 2008 American coming of age drama film by Jonathan Levine and starring Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, and Olivia Thirlby. The film is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics and was released in the U.S. on July 3, 2008.-Plot:...
  
  (2008)
• 50/50 (2011)
• Warm Bodies (2012)

Education

• MFA – American Film Institute
• BA – Brown University
• High School – Phillips Academy, Andover
• Elementary school – St. Bernard's School, New York

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