Such Much Films' most recent project is FALLING FOR FIGARO, a romantic comedy about a brilliant young fund manager who leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands, starring Joanna Lumley, Danielle Macdonald, and High Skinner. The film was directed by Ben Lewin, and produced by Philip Wade and Judi Levine. FALLING FOR FIGARO was released in the US on October 1st, 2021.
Levine & Lewin have worked together and independently in Australia, Europe and the United States. Their features include THE CATCHER WAS A SPY, starring Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, Jeff Daniels, Guy Pearce, Sienna Miller, Mark Strong, Hiroyuki Sanada & Tom Wilkinson; THE SESSIONS, starring Oscar-winner Helen Hunt and Oscar nominees John Hawkes and William H. Macy; PAPERBACK ROMANCE, starring Anthony LaPaglia and Gia Carrides, and THE FAVOUR, THE WATCH & THE VERY BIG FISH starring Jeff Goldblum, Bob Hoskins, and Natasha Richardson. Their work also includes documentaries, television series and tele-movies, most notably the multi-award winning television drama series THE DUNERA BOYS starring Bob Hoskins, as well as the documentary series THE MIGRANT EXPERIENCE.
Their most recent documentary projects include HOLLYWOOD GOLD – a wry look at the jewelry trade of Hollywood and the Oscars, and an UNTITLED YARRABAH PROJECT, which follows the journey of a group of Australian Aboriginal teenagers as they earn themselves a trip to Los Angeles, and now returning to them 20 years later to discover how the trip has impacted their lives.
Such Much Films is currently developing a number of feature and documentary projects,
Levine & Lewin have worked together and independently in Australia, Europe and the United States. Their features include THE CATCHER WAS A SPY, starring Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, Jeff Daniels, Guy Pearce, Sienna Miller, Mark Strong, Hiroyuki Sanada & Tom Wilkinson; THE SESSIONS, starring Oscar-winner Helen Hunt and Oscar nominees John Hawkes and William H. Macy; PAPERBACK ROMANCE, starring Anthony LaPaglia and Gia Carrides, and THE FAVOUR, THE WATCH & THE VERY BIG FISH starring Jeff Goldblum, Bob Hoskins, and Natasha Richardson. Their work also includes documentaries, television series and tele-movies, most notably the multi-award winning television drama series THE DUNERA BOYS starring Bob Hoskins, as well as the documentary series THE MIGRANT EXPERIENCE.
Their most recent documentary projects include HOLLYWOOD GOLD – a wry look at the jewelry trade of Hollywood and the Oscars, and an UNTITLED YARRABAH PROJECT, which follows the journey of a group of Australian Aboriginal teenagers as they earn themselves a trip to Los Angeles, and now returning to them 20 years later to discover how the trip has impacted their lives.
Such Much Films is currently developing a number of feature and documentary projects,
Judi Levine
Judi Levine began her film-producing career in Australia after graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in film and drama, and then working her way up the production ladder. In addition to producing in Australia, Judi's work has led her to projects in England, France, the Czech Republic and United States.
Levine has been associated with award-winning film projects since her first short feature Plead Guilty, Get A Bond which won an AFI award for Best Screenplay in a Short Film. Her other producing credits include the feature film Paperback Romance starring Anthony LaPaglia and Gia Carides, and the documentary Hollywood Gold for The Discovery Channel. Judi Levine has also worked on numerous renowned television mini-series and documentaries, many of which reflect her passion for telling stories that address the human condition and raise awareness of issues that affect people from all walks of life.
One of Levine's most accomplished works is the award-winning feature film THE SESSIONS, a moving true-life story based on the sexual awakening of poet and journalist Mark O'Brien who spent most of his life in an iron lung. Starring Oscar-winner Helen Hunt and Oscar nominees John Hawkes and William H. Macy, the film won numerous international awards including Audience Awards at the 2012 Sundance, San Sebastian and Mill Valley Film Festivals, as well as a 2012 Sundance Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast. In 2013, the lead cast of The Sessions garnered two Independent Spirit Awards for Best Male Lead and Best Supporting Actress, as well as two Golden Globe nominations in the same categories, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Levine's most recent features include FALLING FOR FIGARO, starring Joanna Lumley, Danielle Macdonald, and Hugh Skinner, as well as the comedy drama HOW TO PLEASE A WOMAN, starring Sally Phillips, Erik Thompson, and Myles Pollard. How to Please a Woman is currently in post-production, and set to be released in December 2021.
Levine has presented at various forums and conferences on independent production and the art of surviving in the toughest movie town in the world. Expanding on her experiences in Los Angeles, Levine developed the seminars Jump Start to Hollywood, aimed at helping aspiring artists find an easier path to establishing themselves in the US.
Levine is based in Los Angeles with her husband and producing partner writer/director Ben Lewin.
Judi´s Bio on IMDb
Levine has been associated with award-winning film projects since her first short feature Plead Guilty, Get A Bond which won an AFI award for Best Screenplay in a Short Film. Her other producing credits include the feature film Paperback Romance starring Anthony LaPaglia and Gia Carides, and the documentary Hollywood Gold for The Discovery Channel. Judi Levine has also worked on numerous renowned television mini-series and documentaries, many of which reflect her passion for telling stories that address the human condition and raise awareness of issues that affect people from all walks of life.
One of Levine's most accomplished works is the award-winning feature film THE SESSIONS, a moving true-life story based on the sexual awakening of poet and journalist Mark O'Brien who spent most of his life in an iron lung. Starring Oscar-winner Helen Hunt and Oscar nominees John Hawkes and William H. Macy, the film won numerous international awards including Audience Awards at the 2012 Sundance, San Sebastian and Mill Valley Film Festivals, as well as a 2012 Sundance Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast. In 2013, the lead cast of The Sessions garnered two Independent Spirit Awards for Best Male Lead and Best Supporting Actress, as well as two Golden Globe nominations in the same categories, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Levine's most recent features include FALLING FOR FIGARO, starring Joanna Lumley, Danielle Macdonald, and Hugh Skinner, as well as the comedy drama HOW TO PLEASE A WOMAN, starring Sally Phillips, Erik Thompson, and Myles Pollard. How to Please a Woman is currently in post-production, and set to be released in December 2021.
Levine has presented at various forums and conferences on independent production and the art of surviving in the toughest movie town in the world. Expanding on her experiences in Los Angeles, Levine developed the seminars Jump Start to Hollywood, aimed at helping aspiring artists find an easier path to establishing themselves in the US.
Levine is based in Los Angeles with her husband and producing partner writer/director Ben Lewin.
Judi´s Bio on IMDb
Ben Lewin
Born in Poland and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Ben Lewin's career as a writer and director is spread across three continents and includes award-winning documentaries, feature films, TV movies, mini-series and episodic programs.
As a young man, Lewin showed great passion for photography and creative writing, but his academic studies took him into the world of law. Lewin left his work as a criminal barrister when he was offered a scholarship to the National Film School in England. After graduating, he joined BBC Television as a director on the Nationwide program, followed by other documentary and current affairs programs for Thames, Granada and Channel Four Television. His breakthrough project as a writer/director was The Case of Cruelty to Prawns, a comedy-drama that won the Best Television Film Award at the prestigious Melbourne Film Festival.
Lewin is renowned for his award-winning feature film The Sessions, a moving true-life story based on the sexual awakening of Berkeley-based poet and journalist Mark O'Brien who spent most of his life in an iron lung. Starring Oscar-winner Helen Hunt, and Oscar nominees John Hawkes and William H. Macy, the film won numerous international awards including Audience Awards at the 2012 Sundance, San Sebastian and Mill Valley Film Festivals, and a 2012 Sundance Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast. In 2013, the lead cast of The Sessions garnered two Independent Spirit Awards for Best Male Lead and Best Supporting Actress, as well as two Golden Globe nominations in the same categories and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Lewin’s most recent directing credits include FALLING FOR FIGARO, a romantic comedy about a brilliant young fund manager who leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands, starring Joanna Lumley, Danielle Macdonald, and High Skinner; THE CATCHER WAS A SPY (2018), a WWII drama starring Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, Jeff Daniels, Guy Pearce, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Strong and Sienna Miller; and PLEASE STAND BY (2018), a comedy drama starring Dakota Fanning and Toni Collette.
Ben Lewin is also renowned as the writer and director of comedy features Paperback Romance (aka Lucky Break), a love story about slightly damaged people starring Anthony LaPaglia and Gia Carides, and the messianic farce The Favour, the Watch, and the Very Big Fish starring Jeff Goldblum, Bob Hoskins and Natasha Richardson. After settling in Los Angeles, Lewin brought his distinctive mix of the preposterous and the perceptive to Hollywood Gold, a personal documentary of his misadventures in the Beverly Hills jewelry trade at Oscar time. In addition to creating the highly successful Australian TV series Rafferty's Rules, Lewin’s episodic television work includes one of the highest-rating episodes of Ally McBeal (Let's Dance), Touched by an Angel, a number of episodes of the most popular drama series in Australia, Sea Change and, more recently, on the acclaimed new ABC series Speechless.
Some of Ben's other notable credits include the murder-mystery feature Georgia, starring Judy Davis, which won eight Australian Film Institute nominations; the much-honored and multi-award winning four-part mini-series The Dunera Boys starring Bob Hoskins – the true story of 2,000 German and Austrian Jewish refugees living in England who were mistakenly suspected as Nazi spies and transported to Australia in 1940; the award-winning A Matter of Convenience, a tele-movie about marriages of convenience with Jean-Pierre Cassel, John Clarke and Deborrah-Lee Furness; and Please Guilty, Get a Bond, about an aboriginal woman and her conflict with the Australian legal system for which he won an AFI award for Best Screenplay in a Short film.
An Australian at heart, Ben has been living and working in California since 1994 and is currently in development on a number of feature film and television projects with his wife and producing partner Judi Levine.
Ben's Bio on IMDb
As a young man, Lewin showed great passion for photography and creative writing, but his academic studies took him into the world of law. Lewin left his work as a criminal barrister when he was offered a scholarship to the National Film School in England. After graduating, he joined BBC Television as a director on the Nationwide program, followed by other documentary and current affairs programs for Thames, Granada and Channel Four Television. His breakthrough project as a writer/director was The Case of Cruelty to Prawns, a comedy-drama that won the Best Television Film Award at the prestigious Melbourne Film Festival.
Lewin is renowned for his award-winning feature film The Sessions, a moving true-life story based on the sexual awakening of Berkeley-based poet and journalist Mark O'Brien who spent most of his life in an iron lung. Starring Oscar-winner Helen Hunt, and Oscar nominees John Hawkes and William H. Macy, the film won numerous international awards including Audience Awards at the 2012 Sundance, San Sebastian and Mill Valley Film Festivals, and a 2012 Sundance Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast. In 2013, the lead cast of The Sessions garnered two Independent Spirit Awards for Best Male Lead and Best Supporting Actress, as well as two Golden Globe nominations in the same categories and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Lewin’s most recent directing credits include FALLING FOR FIGARO, a romantic comedy about a brilliant young fund manager who leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands, starring Joanna Lumley, Danielle Macdonald, and High Skinner; THE CATCHER WAS A SPY (2018), a WWII drama starring Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, Jeff Daniels, Guy Pearce, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Strong and Sienna Miller; and PLEASE STAND BY (2018), a comedy drama starring Dakota Fanning and Toni Collette.
Ben Lewin is also renowned as the writer and director of comedy features Paperback Romance (aka Lucky Break), a love story about slightly damaged people starring Anthony LaPaglia and Gia Carides, and the messianic farce The Favour, the Watch, and the Very Big Fish starring Jeff Goldblum, Bob Hoskins and Natasha Richardson. After settling in Los Angeles, Lewin brought his distinctive mix of the preposterous and the perceptive to Hollywood Gold, a personal documentary of his misadventures in the Beverly Hills jewelry trade at Oscar time. In addition to creating the highly successful Australian TV series Rafferty's Rules, Lewin’s episodic television work includes one of the highest-rating episodes of Ally McBeal (Let's Dance), Touched by an Angel, a number of episodes of the most popular drama series in Australia, Sea Change and, more recently, on the acclaimed new ABC series Speechless.
Some of Ben's other notable credits include the murder-mystery feature Georgia, starring Judy Davis, which won eight Australian Film Institute nominations; the much-honored and multi-award winning four-part mini-series The Dunera Boys starring Bob Hoskins – the true story of 2,000 German and Austrian Jewish refugees living in England who were mistakenly suspected as Nazi spies and transported to Australia in 1940; the award-winning A Matter of Convenience, a tele-movie about marriages of convenience with Jean-Pierre Cassel, John Clarke and Deborrah-Lee Furness; and Please Guilty, Get a Bond, about an aboriginal woman and her conflict with the Australian legal system for which he won an AFI award for Best Screenplay in a Short film.
An Australian at heart, Ben has been living and working in California since 1994 and is currently in development on a number of feature film and television projects with his wife and producing partner Judi Levine.
Ben's Bio on IMDb
