Nationality Dutch Role Dutch journalist | Name Gideon Levy Ethnicity Jewish Movies Lockerbie Revisited | |
Occupation Journalist and TV-presenter People also search for Erik van der Hoff, Micha Blazer, Dan Blazer | ||
Education University of Amsterdam | ||
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Gideon Levy is a Dutch investigative journalist, producer and television presenter. He has won the Prix Europa in 2009.
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Biography
Levy was born in 1970 and studied at the University of Amsterdam. He worked several years for broadcaster VPRO on several current affairs programmes, and for a while his own television programme, Levy and Sadeghi, with his colleague Bahram Sadeghi. Levy was one of the members of the De Jakhalzen, one of the standard items in the Dutch television programme De Wereld Draait Door.
Career
He is mostly active as an investigative journalist and programme maker. He makes documentaries for the Dutch public broadcaster AVRO on controversial subjects. Since 2010 he works with the TV production company BlazHoffski, producing documentaries such as Brandende Kwesties and a series on Israeli history, Israël: tussen droom en werkelijkheid ("Israel: between dream and reality").
The documentaries Levy works on are often on controversial subjects such as patents in the pharmaceutical industry, Israel, doping in bicycle racing, bonuses in the banking industry etc. The first part of a six-part documentary on the last Dutch war criminals (including a rare interview with the wife of Nazi collaborator Klaas Carel Faber is scheduled to air on Monday 18 June 2012 on AVRO television.
In 2009 he and BlazHoffski won the Prix Europa in the category "current affairs" for Lockerbie Revisited, a film about the follow-up on and investigation of the Lockerbie terrorist attack, along with production company BlazHoffski.