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Producer of 'The Sessions'
Film producer, who along with husband Ben Lewin, heads Such Much Films, an independent film production company
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Judi Levine
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FROM Judi Levine
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Making 'The Sessions' When Ben Lewin discovered Mark O'Brien's article, " On Seeing a Sex Surrogate ," he was at an all time low in his film career. Judi Levine, his wife and producer, had taken a job outside of the business to pay the bills. In fact, they were thinking about leaving LA and moving back to Australia. But this article struck a nerve -- not only because Lewin had been contracted polio as a child, like O'Brien -- but because this story moved them. They talk with us about how they acquired the rights to O'Brien's article ( he died in 1999 ), and the life rights to the actual sex surrogate -- Cheryl Cohen Green . Lewin and Levine's story of ‘begging' for money to get the film financed turns triumphant when they get The Sessions into Sundance and sell it to Fox Searchlight.
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