Max Lewkowicz

Max Lewkowicz, founder and owner of Dog Green Productions, has written, directed, and produced hundreds of productions for network and public television, museums, and multinational organizations in a career that has spanned over twenty-five years. Mr. Lewkowicz’s documentary works include award-winning films about the mercury pollution afflicting Native American tribes in Northern Canada, the Dance Theater of Harlem, the generational cycles of poverty in America’s inner cities, Nelson Mandela’s struggle against Apartheid in South Africa, as well as Across the Bridge, a documentary about the American Military Doctrine in  Germany during the Cold War and Ours to Fight For, which tells the stories of American GIs in World War II.

In addition, Mr. Lewkowicz has written, produced and directed museum exhibition films and interactive presentations domestically and internationally.  His works in this area include the media for the core exhibits of Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center (for which he produced eighteen films and interactives) and the Pointe du Hoc Visitor Center, The Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York, The South Africa Heritage Museum in Cape Town, and the Montreal Memorial Holocaust Center. Mr. Lewkowicz’s writing and directorial expertise has won critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Silver Screen Award at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival, the grand prize of The Chicago International Film Festival, and the 2003 Award of Excellence from the National Association of Museum Exhibitions. His film MORGENTHAU shown on public television, recently won an Emmy in 2015.  Mr. Lewkowicz’s latest film, UNDERFIRE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF PFC. TONY VACCARO  premiering at the Shanghai International Film Festival, will premiere on HBO in November.

Mr. Lewkowicz is a graduate of McGill University and has a Masters Degree in Communications from New York University.