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Gerald Asher Levitan (born 1954) is a Canadian best known as "the kid who interviewed John Lennon". He produced and starred in the animated short I Met the Walrus about his meeting with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Toronto, Canada in 1969. Though only 14 years old, Levitan conducted an exclusive 40 minute interview with them about peace, The Beatles, and their music.
The film won a Daytime Emmy in 2009 in the category of New Approaches, Daytime Entertainment. It was also nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for best animated short, and won Best Animated at the Manhattan Short Film Festival, the American Film Festival and the Middle East International Film Festival. He is the author of the best selling, autobiographical book, I Met The Walrus released May 2009 by Harper Collins. It is the account of Levitan's childhood growing up in the sixties, his love for the Beatles, and traces in detail the day he spent with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
In 2010, Levitan was honored by the Guggenheim Museum and YouTube when I Met The Walrus was selected in the first Biennial of Creative Video.
Jerry Levitan, author of I Met the Walrus, talks about how, as a young boy he snuck into the hotel room of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. What were his first impressions?
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short and won the 2009 Emmy for 'New Approaches' (making it the first film to win an Emmy on behalf of the internet).
Jerry Levitan, author of I Met the Walrus, talks about meeting John Lennon as a teenager and the words of wisdom that have always stuck with him.
See more highlights at youtube.com/play Introducing Jerry Levitan & Josh Raskin, creators of 'I am the Walrus'. Developed by YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with HP and Intel, YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video recognizes the ever-expanding realm of online video and its most remarkable practitioners. YouTube Play. Live from the Guggenheim is a celebration of 25 videos and their creators, selected by the jury from over 23,000 submitted.
Gerald Asher Levitan (born 1954) is a Canadian best known as "the kid who interviewed John Lennon". He produced and starred in the animated short I Met the Walrus about his meeting with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Toronto, Canada in 1969. Though only 14 years old, Levitan conducted an exclusive 40 minute interview with them about peace, The Beatles, and their music.
The film won a Daytime Emmy in 2009 in the category of New Approaches, Daytime Entertainment. It was also nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for best animated short, and won Best Animated at the Manhattan Short Film Festival, the American Film Festival and the Middle East International Film Festival. He is the author of the best selling, autobiographical book, I Met The Walrus released May 2009 by Harper Collins. It is the account of Levitan's childhood growing up in the sixties, his love for the Beatles, and traces in detail the day he spent with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
In 2010, Levitan was honored by the Guggenheim Museum and YouTube when I Met The Walrus was selected in the first Biennial of Creative Video.
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