Amber Levinson is a writer, associate producer and educator. After teaching in New York City, she moved to Brazil in 2002. There she worked with the directors of City of God to found Cinema Nosso, a filmmaking program for youth from Rio's favelas. Since then, Amber has written and contributed to several fiction and documentary works distributed in the international festival circuit as well as on networks such as BBC and National Geographic.  She holds degrees from Brown University (Comparative Literature) and Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro (MA in Cultural History).