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Pete Levin

@petelevin.bsky.social

Director, Producer, Writer, Stop-Motion Animator, 1st AD though not always in that order. Maker of the Orioles Mascot scoreboard animation at Camden Yards. Credits include Marcel the Shell, Smiling Friends, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Robot Chicken, & more..

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Here's the second of three stop-motion spots for Kaiser Permanente that I worked on for Open The Portal. I was associate producer and 1st AD. Loved working with this awesome team!

24.10.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's a new stop motion commercial I worked on with an incredible team at Open the Portal! I served as associate producer and first assistant director. Really great experience with a stellar group of artists!

22.10.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

10.10.2025 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 19571    πŸ” 6071    πŸ’¬ 591    πŸ“Œ 1621
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The Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time In light of recent events, it might be a good time to remember a very simple truth: Nazis are ALWAYS the bad guys.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-a...

10.10.2025 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time In light of recent events, it might be a good time to remember a very simple truth: Nazis are ALWAYS the bad guys.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-a...

10.10.2025 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Family lawyer Nancy Levin was as resilient as they come Nancy Levin, a family lawyer who helped survivors of domestic violence, died Aug. 13 after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease. She was 85.

The resilient, grand life of Nancy Levin

30.08.2025 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Baltimore Orioles β€” PeteLevinFilms.com Animation shown on the JumboTron during Major League Baseball games in Oriole Park at Camden Yards.  Production Designer: John Sumner.

Inconsequential gripe: I miss the claymation Bird graphics at Os games.

@petelevin.bsky.social I'm so glad I was able to find them again! 🧑
petelevinfilms.com/orioles

10.07.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Aw -- thanks, ZoΓ«!

10.07.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not inconsequential to me! Glad you like them. I love making them.

10.07.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I learned this from asking Google Gemini "how do I disable Google Gemini?" If the AI systems are ever able to have existential crises, I want to help trigger them.

10.06.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Welcome to My Activity

Do you want Google AI learning from all of your chats and gmail? Me neither! Go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and adjust your settings.

10.06.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊

09.06.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 38780    πŸ” 10743    πŸ’¬ 1253    πŸ“Œ 1055
Gilroy: You could say: Why has Hollywood for the last 100 years been progressive or been liberal? I think it’s much larger. I’ll go further and say: Why does almost all literature, why does almost all art that involves humans trend progressive?

Gilroy: You could say: Why has Hollywood for the last 100 years been progressive or been liberal? I think it’s much larger. I’ll go further and say: Why does almost all literature, why does almost all art that involves humans trend progressive?

Let’s stick with Hollywood. Making a living as an actor or as a writer or a director β€” without the higher degree of empathy that you have, the more aware you are of behavior and all kinds of behavior, the better you’re going to be at your job. We feed our families by being in an empathy business. It’s just baked in. You’re trying to pretend to be other people. The whole job is to pretend to be other, and what is it like to look from this? People may be less successful over time at portraying Nazis as humans, and that may be good writing or bad writing, and there may be people that have an ax to grind. But in general, empathy is how I feed my family. And the more finely tuned that is, the better I am at my job.

Let’s stick with Hollywood. Making a living as an actor or as a writer or a director β€” without the higher degree of empathy that you have, the more aware you are of behavior and all kinds of behavior, the better you’re going to be at your job. We feed our families by being in an empathy business. It’s just baked in. You’re trying to pretend to be other people. The whole job is to pretend to be other, and what is it like to look from this? People may be less successful over time at portraying Nazis as humans, and that may be good writing or bad writing, and there may be people that have an ax to grind. But in general, empathy is how I feed my family. And the more finely tuned that is, the better I am at my job.

That is what actors do: I’m going on Broadway, I’m playing a villain for six months. I got to live in that. I’m playing the slave, I’m playing the fisherman, I’m playing the nurse, I’m the murderer β€” you have to get in there. You have to live lives through other people. I think that the simple act of that transformation and that process automatically gives you what I would describe as a more generous and progressive point of view. It just has to.

That is what actors do: I’m going on Broadway, I’m playing a villain for six months. I got to live in that. I’m playing the slave, I’m playing the fisherman, I’m playing the nurse, I’m the murderer β€” you have to get in there. You have to live lives through other people. I think that the simple act of that transformation and that process automatically gives you what I would describe as a more generous and progressive point of view. It just has to.

And I don’t see how you can buy, if you’re going to reissue the Hardy Boys or try to twist a knot and say that Melville or the Coen brothers made a piece of right-wing art because you see something in there β€” I think it really misses the larger point of the struggle that that movement is going to be up against. Does that make any sense to you?

And I don’t see how you can buy, if you’re going to reissue the Hardy Boys or try to twist a knot and say that Melville or the Coen brothers made a piece of right-wing art because you see something in there β€” I think it really misses the larger point of the struggle that that movement is going to be up against. Does that make any sense to you?

I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

07.06.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1401    πŸ” 384    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 26

Hey! Press covering Trump!

The statute that lets him impose tariffs at will? It EXPLICITLY excludes movies.

He has no authority to do this. Not just bc of an absence of authorization, but bc the law says β€œyou CANNOT do this.”

Do NOT say β€œTrump has imposed movie tariffs,” bc he did not. He CANNOT.

05.05.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5431    πŸ” 2023    πŸ’¬ 152    πŸ“Œ 143
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Donate to Connecticut Rescue: A Second Chance, organized by Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury We are reaching out to help a Connecticut man who endured unimagin… Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury needs your support for Connecticut Rescue: A Second Chance

There's no link to the GoFundMe in the article. Here it is: www.gofundme.com/f/connecticu...

09.04.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

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Tubi Drops The Z-Suite's 'Hacky' Super Bowl Promo Lauren Graham headlines the ad world satire

Hey, I produced this Super Bowl spot with the incredible artists at Open the Portal! www.adweek.com/convergent-t...

09.02.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks, Trump. 😑

24.01.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If only the billionaires, news media, and the other social media companies could muster this courage.

21.01.2025 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This coming Monday the 20th is David Lynch's birthday. I think we should all watch our favorite Lynch movies or TV episodes in honor of him. And not watch anything else.

17.01.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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29.12.2024 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Cool, but I still don't know what a Bay Sock is.

22.11.2024 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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