Gideon Levy
 Gideon Levy  (journalist, film maker) | |
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Gideon Levy is a Dutch investigative journalist, producer and television presenter, whose 50-minute documentary film "Lockerbie Revisited" was broadcast in April 2009 in the Netherlands on the eve of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi's second appeal against conviction for the Lockerbie bombing. | |
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Background
Gideon Levy was born in 1969 and studied at the University of Amsterdam. He worked several years for broadcaster VPRO on several current affairs programmes, and for a while his own television programme, "Levy and Sadeghi", with his colleague Bahram Sadeghi.[1] Levy was one of the members of the De Jakhalzen, one of the standard items in the Dutch television programme De Wereld Draait Door.
Career
Gideon Levy is mostly active as an investigative journalist and programme maker. He makes documentaries for the Dutch public broadcaster Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep (AVRO) on controversial subjects. Since 2010 he works with the TV production company BlazHoffski, producing documentaries such as "Brandende Kwesties" and a series on Israeli history, "Israël: tussen droom en werkelijkheid" ("Israel: between dream and reality").[2]
The documentaries Levy works on are often on controversial subjects such as patents in the pharmaceutical industry,[3][4] The first part of a six-part documentary on the last Dutch war criminals (including a rare interview with the wife of Nazi collaborator Klaas Carel Faber was scheduled to air on Monday 18 June 2012 on AVRO television.[5]
Lockerbie Revisited
- Full article: Lockerbie Revisited
- Full article: Lockerbie Revisited
Gideon Levy's film Lockerbie Revisited won the Prix Europa as the Best Television Current Affairs Programme of the Year 2009. The prize was donated by the Directorate of Communication of the Council of Europe.[6] The documentary was nominated for a Rockie award in the 'Investigative & Current Affairs' category at the 2010 Banff World Television Festival.[7] An English-language version was awarded the Gold World Medal at the 2011 New York Festivals of TV and films.[8]. Levy narrates in Dutch and conducts interviews in English with: Retired FBI agent Richard Marquise, Detective Chief Superintendent Stuart Henderson of the Scottish police, Former FBI Crime Laboratory head Thomas Thurman, UN Observer at the Lockerbie trial Hans Köchler, Author, journalist and the film's researcher Ian Ferguson, Former CIA agent Robert Baer, Former FBI laboratory scientist Dr Fred Whitehurst & former Lord Advocate Lord Fraser of Carmyllie.[9]
Social Media
Gideon Levy is on Facebook and his many friends include: Edwin Bollier, Robert Forrester and Patrick Haseldine.[10]
See also
References
- ↑ "AVRO community-website"
- ↑ "Israel, tussen droom en werkelijkheid"
- ↑ "Uitzendinggemist.nl for TV-programme, Slikken of stikken"
- ↑ Use of performance-enhancing drugs in bicycle racing, performance-related pay banking industry etc.
- ↑ "Levy - Programma's"
- ↑ "Prix Europa Best Television Current Affairs Programme of the Year 2009"
- ↑ "2010 Rockie nominations"
- ↑ "Lockerbie Revisited" wins again - Gold at 2011 NYF International Television & Film Awards"
- ↑ "Lockerbie Revisited" by Gideon Levy
- ↑ Gideon Levy on Facebook
External links
- Video-archive for the documentaries Gideon Levy made for AVRO in 2011
- Overview of current-affairs programmes of production-compagny BlazHoffski
- debate.avro.nl, forum-website about the documentaries Levy makes for AVRO
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