Justin Souriau-Levine

Justin Souriau-Levine is a director, producer, writer, cinematographer, editor and actor known for his most recent award winning feature film "Planet of the Astronauts" (2022), which had its world premiere at the Director's Guild of America in New York City and a theatrical release across Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine thereafter (most notably at Bow Tie Cinemas), and "The Greatest Race" (2021). Mr. Souriau-Levine is an Award This! 2023 nominated Director, and award winning producer. He is also the founder and CEO of the New-York based independent film and commercial production company, Justin Souriau-Levine Studios, which also has an office in Paris, France. Born at the turn of the latest century, Mr. Souriau-Levine is one of the youngest emerging filmmakers in the motion picture industry. Having received high acclaim for "The Greatest Race" (2021) from festival directors and academy members, he has been dubbed as the next "Orson Welles" for his cinematic vision, "Charlie Chaplin" for his slapstick humor, "Mel Brooks" for his comedic brilliance and "Jean-Paul Belmondo" for his charisma and charm. Having made his stage debut with American Ballet Theater in 2010, Mr. Souriau-Levine has always been an entertainer. He performed with the country's national company, at the Metropolitan Opera House and Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, along with Washington DC's historic Kennedy Center, Orange County's Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Tokyo's Bunkamura and Bunkai Kaikan Theaters, and Brooklyn's BAM Theater among others; spanning 9 years of featured roles across hundreds of performances. During his time at American Ballet Theater, Mr. Souriau-Levine was featured by the New York Times, Fox 5 News, Pointe Magazine, Town & Country Magazine and Dance Spirit Magazine; participated in the NASDAQ opening and closing bell ceremonies at the New York Stock Exchange; and was highly acclaimed by the Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Tokyo Shimbun, Haglund's Heal, Dance Magazine, New York Times. He was awarded "Best Child Performer" (2011) and "Best Performances" (2012) by Dance Magazine; and was most notably acclaimed for his tailor-made character "Little Mouse", along with his rendition of "Fritz" in Alexei Ratmansky's "The Nutcracker" (2010-2016), "Nicolo" (Master of Ceremonies), "The Candy Worm", and "Chocolate Chip Man" in Alexei Ratmansky's "Whipped Cream" (2017-2019), and for his featured roles in "The Sleeping Beauty" (2015-2017), "Don Quixote" (2012-2014), "Giselle" (2011-2012), "Manon" (2014-2015), "Romeo & Juliet" (2018), "Swan Lake" (2018), "Le Corsaire" (2012-2013), "Cinderella" (2015-2016) "La Bayadère" (2018), "Othello" (2015) and "The Golden Cockerel" (2016). Throughout his childhood, he had always been an innovator. In 2012, he founded "Moulin a Café FC", a New York based soccer club and academy founded upon the principle of providing equal playing opportunities to impoverished communities. He acted as the club's technical director, manager, coach and first team captain for 6 years. His filmmaking career started in 2007 (age 7) when he made his first short film for his own production company at the time, "Dingueling Productions", with which he completed 32 short films (2007-2017), and later three unreleased feature films "Codename Bluebird", "The Roof's Edge" and "The Movers" (2019-2020); before founding "Justin Souriau-Levine Studios" and making his first relevant feature film "The Greatest Race" (2021) which propelled him to high acclaim and recognition as a young emerging filmmaker, with tremendous potential. Soon after, Mr. Souriau-Levine unveiled his newest feature film, "Planet of the Astronauts" (2022) which, fresh off it's successful world premiere at the Director's Guild of America in New York City, special screening events at Harvard University and the LFNY Cultural Center and its Northeastern theatrical release, he immediately embarked on his third feature, "Back to the Present!", a film with a much larger scope, budget and amount of production value than his previous features. Mr. Souriau-Levine is also commonly praised for the musicality of his work and his eye-catching collaborations with acclaimed composers (some of which posthumously) such as Henry Mancini, Victor Young, Stephen Sondheim, Guillermo Klein, Magali Souriau and Olivia Paris throughout his early filmmaking career. In fact, he is a musical artist himself. In 2019, his band "Yellow Man" released their first album "Beautiful Day to be Alive" and later "Orange Sunset" (2020) reaching thousands of listeners from across the globe. Mr. Souriau-Levine has also appeared on TV commercials for One.org and Garage Magazine, in addition to modeling for Kids Magazine, National Geographic and Georgios Kalogeropoulos. As an actor, he's played the role of Tom in "Planet of the Astronauts" (2022), Jean-Marie and Pietro in "The Greatest Race" (2021), Cameron and Cleo's husband in "The Movers" (2020), Mr. Kitchen in "The Roof's Edge" (2020), Agent Bluebird in "Codename Bluebird" (2019), the lead character in "Toi et Moi, Moi et Toi" (2021) and Abigail's Manager in "Abigail's Dawning" (2020).