Mark Levinson (film director)

[2] Serving as director of Particle Fever, Levinson told the story of the experimental discovery of the Higgs boson.

In 2007, he met with future co-producer David Kaplan, who had been toying with the idea for a science documentary on the Large Hadron Collider.

He is the writer/producer/director of the fiction film Prisoner of Time, which examined the lives of former Russian dissident artists after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

[4] In 2016, Levinson was working on a film adaptation of Richard Powers' novel The Gold Bug Variations.

[5] In 2016 he was awarded the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication for Particle Fever.