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FERN
LEVITT
PRODUCER / DIRECTOR
Fern's credits include "A Gift of Life", (1998) which chronicles
the struggle of two families whose children need a life saving bone marrow transplant, "EACH
OF US HAS A NAME", (1999) the journey of Canadian teenagers and Holocaust
survivors as they tour the former death camps of Poland, winner at the Chicago
US International Festival for Best Documentary; "The Little Rock Nine" (2001)
the story of nine black students who in 1957 were the first to desegregate an
all white school in Little Rock Arkansas, interviews with President Bill Clinton, "Come
Out Fighting" (2002) the story of the 761st, a segregated tank battalion
in the second world war that was responsible for liberating several concentration
camps in Austria, winner of The Chris Statuette at the Columbus Film Festival, "Sacharov
- Conscience of a Country" (2003), known as the Father of the hydrogen bomb
and the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize only to be later exiled for
7 years as an enemy of the people, interviews with President Mikhail Gorbachev
and winner of Best Historical Documentary at the Houston Film Festival, "Gorbachev's
Revolution" (2004),exclusive interview with former President Mikhail Gorbachev,
George Bush Sr. and Eduard Shevardnadze, the film explores Gorbachev's dramatic
rise in the Communist Party to the eventual coup which ended his leadership and
dissolved the Soviet Union; The Velvet Revolution (2005), the story of Vaclav Havel's rise from playwright to dissident to the first President of a free Czechoslovakia, nominated for a Gemini for best Biography; My Opposition- The Diaries of Friedrich Kellner (2006), One man's foresight and opposition to the Nazis destructive forces and years later the trials and tribulations of his Grandson who would rise above his tragic childhood to share his Grandfather's courageous story.
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