Marc Levin
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"Marc Levin" is an independent film producer and director. He is best known for his Brick City TV series, which won the 2010 Peabody award and was nominated for an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking and his dramatic feature film, SLAM, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Caméra d'Or/Camera D'Or at Cannes in 1998. He also has received three Emmy Awards and the 1997 DuPont-Columbia Award.

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At one point, I thought that maybe humor was the best way to deal with it.

Excuse me Marty, I wanted to do a gonzo film without talking heads, experts, academics, and pundits like you.

At one point, I thought that maybe humor was the best way to deal with it. I figured maybe I should get 12 old Jewish comedians, you know, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, to sit around a table and have them riff off 'The Protocols.

My film is a journey into the face of, into the heart of, hate, ... I want to show the film on the West Bank, I want the film shown in Indonesia . . .

[It is definitely funny when, reacting to a suggestion that Hitler might have wanted to kill the Jewish part of himself symbolically, a self-described skinhead says,] I don't see him as suicidal in the slightest, ... Rupert Murdoch is a Jew.

Protocols of Zion.

It's just not fear and ignorance, obviously that's where hate begins, ... There are a lot of intelligent people, a lot of people who are confused and there are a lot of people who suspect they don't know the real story, and on that I empathize with them.