SYDNEY LEVINE has over 29 years experience in the entertainment industry.  Before inventing FILM FINDERS in 1988, she served as Vice President of Acquisitions for Republic Pictures and previously spent three years of acquiring feature films for Lorimar.  Levine's international contacts have resulted in acquisitions ranging from specialized foreign features, such as MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, LETTER TO BREZHNEV and TAMPOPO, as well as a wide variety of artistic and commercial genres.  She has also worked in international distribution for Twentieth Century Fox in Amsterdam and in marketing for ABC Video Enterprises.  In 1988 she founded FILM FINDERS with her partner Peter Belsito consult with producers needing to plan festival and sales strategies and to service distributors, international sales agents and festivals programmers looking to acquire features.

Levine's educational background includes a Master's Degree from the University of Southern California, a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of California and a License from the Sorbonne University of Paris.  She is fluent in several languages and travels extensively on the international film market circuit.