Lev Omelchenko is an Emmy Award Winning film director and cinematographer based in Atlanta, GA. He is a Ukrainian-born Brooklyn-raised immigrant and Jewish Anti-Zionist. Utilizing both documentary and narrative forms, Lev’s work focuses on telling stories of joyful militancy and collective solidarity of the American South underground.

His films have screened across the country at major festivals including New Orleans Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Indie Memphis and Prismatic Ground. His work has been featured at MIT, Columbia, Emory and Pratt Institute among other higher education institutions.

He is currently in post-production on “A City in the Forest" a documentary feature film about the movement to Stop Cop City. The film has received support from the Ford Foundation (2024), Southern Documentary Fund (2023) and Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts (2021+2023).

Lev is on the Board of The Bakery Atlanta, which is as a collective of artists, curators, and administrators dedicated to offering alternative models to local creatives and the general public.

CONTACT: lev@levomel.com