Lewis Rapkin

Lewis Rapkin is an award-winning director, editor and composer. He recently edited and composed the score for Twyla Moves, which premiered at SXSW 2021 and edited the Emmy-nominated HBO series Level Playing Field. As a director, his film VIVIR premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the US Nespresso Talents Grand Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019. His debut feature documentary Live From Tokyo was distributed globally, screened on 6 continents and was dubbed by one reporter as a "Koyaanisqatsi for the Internet generation." As an editor, Lewis was part of the initial team to launch VICE News in 2013, editing innovative international current affairs documentaries. He also edited the award-winning VICELAND series States of Undress. He edited Steven Cantor's feature documentary What Will Become Of Us which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019 and was scored by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National. His credits also include programs for Vox, PBS, BBC, MTV, Planet Green, The New York Times, Fusion and A&E. Lewis was an associate editor on the Peabody and Emmy award-winning documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012, as well as the Emmy-nominated documentary Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace, which won the Special Jury Prize at SXSW in 2014. As a composer, Lewis collaborated with Google and Dolby Laboratories on his documentary Automatic On The Road to create one of the first doc music scores to ever be conceived and mixed in Dolby Atmos surround. He composed the title music for the HBO series Level Playing Field. His music has appeared in programs for HBO, Showtime, MSNBC, VICELAND, MTV, PBS, The Shed and The Guggenheim Museum.