
Talia Shea Levin
Directing
Biography
Talia Shea Levin is an American director, writer, and producer for film, theater, and virtual reality. Her road trip time travel short film Next Time won the Audience Award at the 51st Nashville Film Festival and her short film Make Me a Pizza premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival. Her dance films have been featured across international platforms and festivals including Short of the Week, Nowness, and the Cut Magazine. She holds a degree in Screenwriting and Directing from Carnegie Mellon University and has continued her education at artist residencies such as the Reykjavik Film Festival Talent Lab and PlayLab Film’s workshop in the Peruvian Amazon with renowned filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Known For

On the way back from a road trip, a woman tries to save her doomed relationship by stopping at a roadside attraction that promises time travel.
Next Time

While waiting alone in a bus station, uncertain and insecure, one woman fights the urge to isolate herself and instead connects to the strangers around her to build a community.
E T A

A very hungry woman tells a pizza delivery guy she can't pay for the pizza she ordered. But can the sex she offers instead of currency possibly equate to the true value of a pizza? Is there anything that can be worthy of pizza, aside from what the market has decided? Together the two decide that their only option is to become the pizza object themselves, to make each other into pizza, in order to become free.
Make Me a Pizza

Late one night, a hungry little Xolo named Skippy searches his home for food and his missing owner, Maria. He finds her lying motionless on the couch just as the Aztec god of death, Xolotl, enters through the front door. Realizing that the god has come to take Maria, Skippy leads him on a heartfelt tour of the house, showing the small, loving moments that defined their life together.
Xolo
In this 16mm dance film, bodies move alone together to find peace and exorcise pain. This project was born out of a need to reinvent community from a safe distance, to anchor in collective experience on the shores of a changing world. In loving memory of Kat DeVoe-Peterson.
Isolations

A multiracial 2nd grader finds himself in a crisis of identity when a big test at school asks for him to "pick one" race/ethnicity.