Movies Written by Micky Levy
Rails & Ties (Warner Brothers) - A 2007 drama film directed by Alison Eastwood and written by Micky Levy. It tells the story of a young boy and his mentally ill widowed mother who commits suicide in her car by parking on a railroad track. The boy confronts the train engineer who accidentally killed his mother, urging him and his wife to raise him after escaping from an unkind foster mother. The two agree to raise him, however, it is later revealed that his wife is dying of breast cancer. Kevin Bacon portrays the train engineer, Marcia Gay Harden plays his sick wife, and Miles Heizer portrays the boy.
Rails & Ties appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival
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Amish Grace - (written under the pseudonym Sylvie White) When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community. Through the eyes of a grieving mother, Ida Graber, and other devastated families, this movie explores the Amish's astonishing reaction to the horrific shootings - of forgiveness and compassion. (Summary courtesy of IMDB)
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WRITING AWARDS
- Amish Grace Humanitas Prize Nomination
- Amish Grace Epiphany Prize Winner 2011
- Christopher Award Winner 2011
- Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow 2011
- Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition 2015
Films Written, Directed and Produced by Micky Levy
Union (short narrative) - The lives of a young couple are changed forever in one night, when they get mugged and locked in the trunk of their own car. In that dark, lonely steel box, they must come to terms with who they are. UNION tackles race, gentrification, and the things we do for love.
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Page's Great and Grand Escape (short narrative) - Page is a 16-year-old, who dreams about being beautiful and popular. She feels unattractive and trapped in her own body; a body she considers to be average at best and repulsive at worst. However, Page is anything but average. She has special powers that enable her to pull off the biggest escape of all — an escape from herself. But Page learns the hard way that what she believes she needs the most – beauty – is not that important, after all.
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Film Festivals and Awards:
- Showed on Virgin America Airlines and in Virgin Hotels
- Raindance Film Festival
- Hollyshorts Film Festival
- Newport Beach Film Festival
- Malibu Film Festival
- Lady Filmmakers Film Festival - Festival Director’s Award
- Foyle Film Festival
- Best Short Competition — Award of Excellence
- Amsterdam Film Festival — Best Cinematography
- Marina del Rey Film Festival — Best Short
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The First Time: Sex and Writing (Short Documentary)