Barry Louis Levy (born September 4, 1972) is an American screenwriter best known as the writer of the 2008 film Vantage Point.

[1][2] He used this film to apply for a place at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts in the two-year masters Peter Stark Producing Program.

[3] Levy is currently working on a screenplay for the upcoming film Kung Fu, based on the 1970s television series of the same name.

His father is a pediatric cardiologist and his mother the dean of a liberal arts college with a PhD in biochemistry.

[4] He is Jewish and has taught Hebrew and social justice at Temple Israel in Los Angeles in between writing jobs,[2] having attended Greenhills School in Ann Arbor, Michigan himself.