Micky Levy is an Israeli-American

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, and

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Early life

Micky Levy was born in

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

and grew up in

Eilat Eilat ( , ; he, אֵילַת ; ar, إِيلَات, Īlāt) is Israel's southernmost city, with a population of , a busy port and popular resort at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on what is known in Israel as the Gulf of Eilat and in Jorda ...

. Her first book of poetry, White Stoplights, was published when she was 15. Micky arrived in Los Angeles when she was 17 with just $700 in her pocket.

Career

Micky started her career acting in independent horror films. She worked for Academy Award Nominated screenwriter

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. Micky’s first produced film was the short, 2 on U, that she wrote and produced with

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. Micky's television pilot, LAM, won the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. Micky wrote the feature script '' Rails & Ties'', a Warner Bros. film. Alison Eastwood directed the movie which starred Kevin Bacon,

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and Miles Heizer. '' Rails & Ties'' premiered at the

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a perman ...

in 2007. Micky wrote

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’s “ Amish Grace”, starring Kimberly Williams-Paisley, for which she received a

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nomination and won the Epiphany Prize. Micky wrote “ Amish Grace” under the pseudonym Sylvie White. The film was co-written by Teena Booth. Micky wrote, directed and produced the documentary short "The First Time: Writing and Sex" that was lensed by

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. Micky wrote, directed and produced the narrative short film Page’s Great and Grand Escape. The short played the festival circuit including the

Newport Beach Film Festival The Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) is an annual film festival in Newport Beach, California, typically held in late April. In 2022, it was announced that the festival have permanently changed its date to be held in October, as the festival be ...

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and HollyShorts Film Festival . Micky’s adaptation of Caryl Phillips’ novel,

Dancing in the Dark (novel) ''Dancing in the Dark'' is a 2005 novel by Kittitian and Nevisian British, Kittitian-British writer Caryl Phillips that won the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2006. The novel reimagines the life of Bert Williams (1874—1922), the first black enterta ...

, placed in the top ten of the Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition.

Filmography

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