Jeff Levy-Hinte

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Jeff Levy-Hinte is president of Antidote International Films (also known as Antidote Films), Inc based in New York City.

Jeff Levy-Hinte most recently produced The Hawk is Dying adapted from Harry Crews' novel and directed by Julian Goldberger and starring Paul Giamatti, Michael Pitt, and Michelle Williams. The Hawk is Dying premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

Prior to that, Jeff produced Mysterious Skin adapted from Scott Heim's novel and directed by Gregg Araki and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Elisabeth Shue. Mysterious Skin screened at the 2004 Venice and Toronto Film Festivals and the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, was released in the US in May 2005 to widespread critical acclaim, and has recently been nominated for IFP Gotham and Independent Spirit Awards.

Jeff's other recent productions include CHAIN, a hybrid documentary-narrative feature which premiered at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival and for which director Jem Cohen was awarded the "Someone to Watch Award" at the 2005 Independent Spirit Awards; and Thirteen directed by Catherine Hardwicke and starring Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood, which screened at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Dramatic Directing Award, and which received numerous award nominations, including a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Holly Hunter, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood, and Best Screenplay and First Feature nominations and the Best Debut Performance award at the Independent Spirit Awards.

Jeff also produced Laurel Canyon directed by Lisa Cholodenko, Wendigo directed by Larry Fessenden, American Saint directed by Joseph Castello, and Limon, a documentary directed by Malachi Roth. Prior to 2000, Levy-Hinte produced Lisa Cholodenko's film High Art and edited the Academy Award-winning documentary When We Were Kings. In 2003 Levy-Hinte was selected as one of Variety's "Producers to Watch".

Jeff recently finished post-production on Larry Fessenden's film The Last Winter and is preparing for production on The Kids are All Right, written and to be directed by Lisa Cholodenko, and Macbeth adapted from the Shakespeare and to be directed by Todd Louiso and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman.

In addition to his film company Antidote Films, Jeff is the co-owner of Dig It Audio, an audio post house that provides complete sound services for video and feature film.