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lewis rapkin

editor | director | composer

 
 

Lewis Rapkin is an award-winning director, editor and composer. He recently produced and edited the upcoming hybrid feature documentary Four Down, produced by Dwayne Johnson.

As a director, his film VIVIR premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the US Nespresso Talents Grand Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019. His debut feature documentary Live From Tokyo was distributed globally, screened on 6 continents and was dubbed by one reporter as a "Koyaanisqatsi for the Internet generation."

He has edited films and series for HBO Max, Hulu, Vox, Vice, Showtime, Paramount+, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, MTV, Planet Green, The New York Times, Fusion and A&E.

Lewis was part of the initial team to launch VICE News in 2013, editing innovative and award-winning international current affairs documentaries. He also edited the VICELAND series States of Undress and the Emmy-nominated HBO series Level Playing Field.

He edited Steven Cantor's feature documentary What Will Become Of Us which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was scored by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National. He also edited the feature documentary Twyla Moves about choreographer Twyla Tharp which premiered at SXSW.

He was the supervising editor for the Paramount+ feature Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi Bashi produced by Sheila Nevins.

He was an associate editor on the Peabody and Emmy award-winning documentary Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012, as well as the Emmy-nominated documentary Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace, which won the Special Jury Prize at SXSW in 2014.

In addition to directing and editing premium documentaries, he is also an accomplished composer, who often composes music for the projects that he is involved in. Recent examples of this include the feature Twyla Moves and the HBO series Level Playing Field.

As a composer, Lewis collaborated with Google and Dolby Laboratories on his documentary Automatic On The Road to create one of the first doc music scores to ever be conceived of and mixed in Dolby Atmos surround. His music has appeared in programs for HBO, Showtime, MSNBC, VICELAND, MTV, PBS, The Shed and The Guggenheim Museum.