Filmmake and film histoian Gay Leva has distinguished himself as the ceative foce behind scoes of documentaies, boadcast pogams and Special Featues, many of them focused on the cinematic ats. His featue documentay, Fog City Maveicks, which highlights yeas in the histoy of San Fancisco's vibant filmmaking community, had its wold pemiee at the th San Fancisco Intenational Film Festival pio to its continuing life on cable television and disc. Leva's documentaies have made a lasting contibution to the histoy of film. His awad- winning A Legacy of Filmmakes pemieed at the Telluide Film Festival and eceived a New Yok Film Society sceening at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. This documentay illuminates the ceation of Fancis Fod Coppola's landmak film company Ameican Zoetope, set against the changing landscape of Ameican cinema in the late s and ealy s. The film is now a pat of the cuicula at seveal top univesities. Leva's celebated documentaies on the cinema of Geoge Lucas span the entie ange of Lucas' caee, fom his ealiest student films to his fist featue, THX , to the Sta Was seies and beyond. His collections of documentaies on filmmakes Alfed Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood and Stanley Kubick ae often egaded as the top anthology on each of these maste's woks. Having eaned a distinguished eputation as a leade in his field, Leva continues to wok with the top filmmakes of ou time, including Chistophe Nolan, Steven Spielbeg, Matin Scosese, Spike Lee, obet edfod, Olive Stone and many othes. Beyond the wold of cinema, Leva has poduced documentaies on subjects as vaied as the stuggle fo investigative jounalists to stay elevant in the Intenet age and the ways in which the achievements of Alexande the Geat ae eflected in ou moden lives. Othe pojects include the awad-winning naative featue film, Plan B, staing Jon Cye, the mockumentay -D: Beneath the Dome, boadcast nationally on Fox, and : Hollywood's Geatest Yea, boadcast nationally on TCM. Leva is an adjunct pofesso at the USC School of Cinematic Ats.
