Vadim Levin

Vadim Levin was born in Saransk, USSR. He began shooting VHS films and TV-shows at the age of fifteen, after watching a lot of TV-shows and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994). Subconsciously he decided that he would one day become a film director and producer. He spent most of the time at the movie theatre and frequently visited a video rental shop. Every day he watched movies. It was a small town and it wasn't long before he had watched every video available for rent. Then he began to re-watch films for a second and third time. This hobby became his basic film school. In 2002 he graduated from a law facility of MSU of N. P. Ogarev. The same year he completed a producing course at a school of cinema and television in Nizhny Novgorod. Since 2003 he lived in Moscow where he made his start in the well-known Russian production companies of commercials and TV-shows. He participated in projects for such clients as Samsung, Mars, M&M's, Mail.ru. Later he became Artem Vasilyev's co-producer (The Paper Soldier, Under Electric Clouds, dir. A. Hermann Jr.) in the almanac Wrigley's 5ive.: Sunrise Sunset (dir. Pyotr Buslov). CEO's position in Victor Glukhov 's film company Slovo made a turning point in Vadim's producer activity. Slovo is famous for The 9th Company dir. F. Bondarchuk, cut. Svoi, D. Meskhiyev, Nevalyashka, cut. R. Kachanov. On the termination of the contract in Slovo Vadim Levin drastically changed his occupation and he engaged in creative producing. In 2011 he finished NewYork film school on film director and script writing. Since 2011 he created 15 TV-shows for the central Russian TV channels. Among them, the most top-rated projects on TV channel Russia 2 are a culinary travel show Yaz vs. Food, an extreme scientific show about cars Science on the Wheels and a car video recorder show 24 Frames. The creator and scriptwriter of the most successful series (according to TNS Gallup, at the time of the premiere 5.5% of the audience watched the channel while the average share of PeretzTV is 2.5%) on PeretzTV channel (CTC Media), Pawnshop Chronicles (Khroniki lombarda). Vadim also is known for TV-series Missing: The Last Hope (Propavshie. Poslednyaya nadezhda, PeretzTV, CTC Media). At this point of his career, Vadim Levin founded NeuroMovies, a company at the intersection of art and science. He began developing and producing a debut horror thriller, Vanity Fear (2016). This short film is the winner of the award Best Short Horror Film at Chandler International Film Festival and at Hollywood Moving Pictures Film Festival, Best Experimental Film at Canadian Diversity Film Festival and Best Movie Poster at Los Angeles Cine Fest. NeuroMovies conducted a neuromarketing research of the horror genre and using its findings develops the feature film Vanity Fear (2018) which will be the first neuro horror.