Innovative technologies enable filmmakers to create anything they can imagine.  For more than 15 years, Sony Pictures Imageworks and its sister company, Sony Pictures Animation, have applied creative technology in support of filmmakers and filmmaking.

 A new suite of tools and techniques are now being applied to enable ever more brilliant imagery.  With examples from such films as WATCHMEN and the upcoming Sony Pictures Animation feature, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS, among others, Sony Pictures Digital Productions senior vice president, Don Levy, will explore Imageworks’ and Animations’ creative approach to digital production, how ideas are developed, problems solved and characters and images created.

Don Levy is senior vice president of communications for the Digital Production Division of Sony Pictures. Levy directs the corporate communications, marketing communications and public relations for Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks.

From 2000-2007, Levy led the marketing and communication efforts of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment where he was involved in a range of new media business and start-ups, including Sony Online Entertainment, Sony Pictures Mobile, Sony Media Software, Soap City, Screenblast, Sony Pictures Digital networks and Movielink.

Levy joined Sony Pictures Imageworks in 1996 during the group’s founding stages. Since then, with Levy directing its communication efforts, Imageworks has gone on to become and award-winning visual effects and digital character animation company. In 2003, Levy oversaw the Academy Award® campaign for Imageworks’ animated short film, THE CHUBBCHUBBS!, which garnered the group’s first Oscar®, and guided the company to win the 2005 Academy Award® for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for its work on SPIDER-MAN™ 2. Levy orchestrated award campaigns for THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE, was nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Achievement in Visual Effects, SUPERMAN RETURNS, SPIDER-MAN™3, I AM LEGEND and SURF’S UP, which was nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature Film.

Prior to joining Sony Pictures Digital, Levy served in a similar capacity with Sony Pictures Digital Studios, supporting the studio’s digital production and post-production businesses. Levy joined Sony Pictures in 1995 as Columbia Picture’s Awards campaign consultant working on the Oscar® winning campaign for SENSE AND SENSIBILITY.

Levy is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Publicists Guild of America, from which he received the Guild’s highest honor, The Les Mason Award and their Bob Yeager Award for community service, and the Board of Trustees for Wilshire Boulevard Temple. He has taught the Entertainment Marketing class for Boston University’s Los Angeles Program and has been a member of the advisory board for the UCLA Technical Management Program.