Levi Woods

At age 16, during his final year of high school Levi Woods obtained his first job as an usher at the local cinema. Trained as a projectionist, Levi soon became management and continued his employment there until Dec 2004. In 1997, he attended a local community college taking computer programming but instead opted to start his own business doing graphic design. Utilizing his animation experience his focus shifted from computer generated to live-action. His first videos were usually special effects based and relied heavily on post-production. That all changed when he entered into a Bachelor's of Fine Arts program at University of British Columbia Okanagan in the fall of 2000. Levi used the visual arts to modify his thinking of filmmaking and developed his strong sense of visual story telling. Also sculpture became a medium that deeply changed his films as custom hand made props became integral to each film. In the summer of 2002 Levi took a job as an editor at MCTR productions, this gave him access to a multitude of television and commercial projects. It also, after only 3 weeks of employment, gave him his first chance at directing for television. The next summer Levi moved to Vancouver where he had the opportunity to work on big budget movie sets such as Paycheck (2003), Miracle (2003) and Walking Tall (2004). Upon receiving his BFA in 2004 Levi worked on his own independent projects before taking a job as a senior videographer on board a cruise ship. This allowed him to travel and gain experience shooting documentary, and commercial video. Again finding himself in Vancouver in early 2005 Levi worked as a props assistant on Fido (2006) and then took an assistant property master position on The Engagement Ring (2005) (TV).