Adrian Levy
- Producer
- Writer
Producer and writer Adrian Levy was a former foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times, and then The Guardian, where he won the One World award for foreign writing, and was made One World Media's Press Journalist of the Year, having been part of a team that won the British Press Awards.
He has co-written eight books: Deception, 2008, on the AQ Khan nuclear smuggling network, was a Washington Post Book of the Year, and finalist in the Royal United Services Institute, Duke of Westminster's medal for Military History. The Meadow (Penguin 2012), a police procedural about Western backpackers kidnapped in Kashmir, won the Ramnath Goenka Award in India, as the best of non fiction. Global best seller, The Siege, an account of the 26/11 assaults on Mumbai, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. His sixth non-fiction book, 'The Exile', (Bloomsbury, 2017), tracked Osama bin laden and family on the run from Afghanistan and into Pakistan. In 2021, Spy Stories was published, on the war between Pakistan spies of the ISI and India's spooks at RAW. In 2022, The Forever Prisoner (Grove, 2022), accompanied the HBOMax feature doc of the same name.
Adrian is adapting The Meadow into a two season scripted drama and he is in production with Matchbox Shots / Banares Media - on a six episode hijack drama, for Netflix in 2024. New Regency has secured rights to an unnamed thriller conceived by him, as a multi- generational South Asian Goodfellas - with Riz Ahmed attached. He has produced documentaries for HBOMax, PBS, History Channel, BBC 1, BBC 2, C4, Facebook and VICE TV. In 2022, he won an Emmy for feature documentary, The Forever Prisoner, directed by Academy award winner Alex Gibney. Other films include 'City of Fear', on Pakistan's bloodiest year, nominated at the Edinburgh International Television Festival; Kashmir Trail, that won the 2013 Amnesty International award, and was short-listed for the Grierson award, and was a finalist in the Rory Peck awards.
Adrian also works for Each One Entertainment in LA and London, founded by Producer Pratima Naithani, an artist and music prodigy, who is incubating new features, documentaries and scripted series by writers and directors from communities under represented in the industry.
He has co-written eight books: Deception, 2008, on the AQ Khan nuclear smuggling network, was a Washington Post Book of the Year, and finalist in the Royal United Services Institute, Duke of Westminster's medal for Military History. The Meadow (Penguin 2012), a police procedural about Western backpackers kidnapped in Kashmir, won the Ramnath Goenka Award in India, as the best of non fiction. Global best seller, The Siege, an account of the 26/11 assaults on Mumbai, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. His sixth non-fiction book, 'The Exile', (Bloomsbury, 2017), tracked Osama bin laden and family on the run from Afghanistan and into Pakistan. In 2021, Spy Stories was published, on the war between Pakistan spies of the ISI and India's spooks at RAW. In 2022, The Forever Prisoner (Grove, 2022), accompanied the HBOMax feature doc of the same name.
Adrian is adapting The Meadow into a two season scripted drama and he is in production with Matchbox Shots / Banares Media - on a six episode hijack drama, for Netflix in 2024. New Regency has secured rights to an unnamed thriller conceived by him, as a multi- generational South Asian Goodfellas - with Riz Ahmed attached. He has produced documentaries for HBOMax, PBS, History Channel, BBC 1, BBC 2, C4, Facebook and VICE TV. In 2022, he won an Emmy for feature documentary, The Forever Prisoner, directed by Academy award winner Alex Gibney. Other films include 'City of Fear', on Pakistan's bloodiest year, nominated at the Edinburgh International Television Festival; Kashmir Trail, that won the 2013 Amnesty International award, and was short-listed for the Grierson award, and was a finalist in the Rory Peck awards.
Adrian also works for Each One Entertainment in LA and London, founded by Producer Pratima Naithani, an artist and music prodigy, who is incubating new features, documentaries and scripted series by writers and directors from communities under represented in the industry.
