Jonathan Goodman Levitt is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, artist, researcher, journalist, and educator. His films have screened at over 100 film festivals, won over 40 awards, and received support from BBC, PBS, Netflix, NHK-Japan, Ford Foundation, and Sundance Institute. His company Changeworx specializes in personalizing social issues, and has built stories from people’s unfolding lives over multiple years across five continents. In recent years, Jonathan’s artistic practice has focused on creating museum installations, most significantly for a Chinese exhibition about the architecture of Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

Changeworx’s recent feature credits include the award-winning BEING BEBE (Tribeca; New York Times Critics Pick) about Cameroonian drag artist Marshall Ngwa, and AMONG THE BELIEVERS (Netflix; Spirit Award, Cinema Eye Honor, Fellini Prize, and Asia Pacific Screen Award nominee), about a firebrand Pakistani cleric and his students that played numerous festivals in over 25 countries. Jonathan’s Silver Telly-winner FOLLOW THE LEADER premiered during both the Democratic and Republican political conventions in the United States, and later aired widely around the world, timed to the American elections. His first feature SUNNY INTERVALS AND SHOWERS aired on BBC (Storyville), and received Grierson and Mental Health Media nominations.

Jonathan trained in documentary directing on a Fulbright Scholarship at the U.K.’s National Film and Television School (NFTS), after studying psychology, painting, and philosophy at Stanford University. His volunteer activities include serving on the Fulbright Association Board; leading the Research & Data Committee of the Documentary Producers Alliance; and co-mediating disputes in the arts via VLA’s MediateArt program. After spending the first half of his career in London, Jonathan moved to Brooklyn, where he lives with his family.