The Last Party

Marc Levin is an independent film producer and director. He is best known for his Brick City TV series, which won the 2010 Peabody award and was nominated for an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking and his dramatic feature film, SLAM, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance... Film Festival and the Camera D'Or at Cannes in 1998. Marc Levin was born in New York City and raised in Elizabeth and Maplewood, New Jersey. In 1982, Levin and his father, Al, teamed up on Portrait of an American Zealot which was made part of the Museum of Modern Art's permanent film collection. In 1984, he made Inside Story: Fall River Spectacle for PBS which won the Cine Golden Eagle Award. In 1985, he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Documentary for the WCBS TV Special The Wall Street Connection. In 1989, Levin was awarded a writing Emmy for the WCBS TV Special New York Non-Stop as well as a nomination for Outstanding Magazine Show . Blowback was released in 1991. In this demented black comedy, an insane scientist, Dr. Krack, creates an orgasm-inducing O-bomb and threatens to detonate it.
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Mark Benjamin is an American documentary filmmaker. He is best known for the Sundance TV series Brick City and the feature film Slam, both of which were shot in his signature Cinema Verité style. Benjamin has worked throughout his career as a director/cameraman and his work in this area has... produced such films as The Last Party, a 1993 political documentary starring Robert Downey, Jr., and Jails, Hospital, Hip Hop, an adaptation of Danny Hoch’s Danny Hoch highly praised one-man play. In addition, he is an executive producer with Forest Whitaker and Marc Levin on the Sundance Channel series BRICK CITY. One of his first films, the Jerusalem Peace was included in a New Directors series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Benjamin was the director of photography for numerous television documentaries including HBO’s The Protocols of Zion, Prisoners of the War on Drugs, Gang War: Bangin' in Little Rock, Thug Life in D.C., and Soldiers in the Army of God, and Discovery Channel’s CIA: America’s Secret Warriors.
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