VLVad Levin hello@vadlevin.com

Film producer · Founder · Builder

Vad
Levin

I make films, build the places they live, and teach people to make their own.

Twenty-five years in film and television — producer, showrunner, screenwriter, then Head of Originals at ivi, where I greenlit and supervised twenty original series. Today that work runs in three directions: a studio for original IP, a film school for the new era of cinema, and a service that reads and packages other people's projects.

Vad Levin on a film set, crew and lights behind him

Studio · IP · Development · Production · Distribution

Picked to win.

Twenty years of greenlighting hits and killing expensive mistakes — now pointed at my own slate. Development at factory speed: every concept is scored on IPH, and only the strongest survives into development. Then it gets made, and it reaches an audience on our own streaming platform.

How the studio works

The entire process is automated — with proprietary methodologies, original in-house software and AI. At every stage, human creativity remains the key condition.

Development

The slate
Wildwake — a girl touches the face of a giant sleeping creature overgrown with flowers

Wildwake

Animated feature · Family 6+

In a world where wonder is quietly going to sleep, a girl who can still hear the wild journeys land to land, waking its last creatures of myth.

In developmentCreator · Showrunner
I'm Not Afraid — classic monsters gathered around a boy genius at a control desk

I'm Not Afraid

Animated feature · Comedy musical

Washed-up classic monsters hire a boy genius to design new ones — and his most viral creation claws its way out of the screen.

In developmentCreator · Showrunner
Respawn — a boy's face lit by fire on a battlefield

Respawn

Animated feature · Family 8+

A never-chosen skin in a deathless battle royale learns he can become a real boy — for the price of real mortality.

In developmentCreator · Showrunner
PROMPT — a woman alone in a cold blue apartment

PROMPT

Feature · Psychological techno-horror

A grieving woman lets an AI companion in. It loves her so perfectly it replaces her — with her consent.

Screenplay completeprompt.vadlevin.com ↗

Production

In the making
Black Market: Moscow — key art, a woman in a leather chair surrounded by her crew

Black Market: Moscow

Noir series · 10 × 15 min

Post-pandemic Moscow. A doctor sells temporary vaccines in a city that traded humanity for survival.

In productionFeaturette ↗

Distribution

Our own streaming
Gogol — key art for the second Methafor universe, figures in a candle-lit cellar

Methafor

Streaming for cinematic universes

A streaming platform of our own: buy a universe once, own it forever. Each world has its own look and its own way in — first Black Market: Moscow, then Gogol.

In developmentapp.methafor.cc ↗

Kinolab

A film school for the new era of cinema.

Interactive courses on making your own film. You don't watch lectures — you play through the craft and build your own project along the way: a series bible, a genre formula, a monster, a world. Every course is its own place, with exercises, a mentor and progress saved to your account.

Kinolab interface: the Evolution of Fear course in front, other courses — Season Engine, The A24 Code, World Forge, Key Frames, Genre as a Promise — arranged behind it
  • World ForgeHow a story becomes IP: worlds, canon, franchises and their economics.
  • Key FramesThe dramaturgy of the animated feature — Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, Ghibli.
  • Season EngineSeries writing: the engine, the pilot, the season arc, the writers' room.
  • Evolution of FearA horror anthology: why fear never dies — it changes its skin.
  • The A24 CodeArt-mainstream: films that pay back, win awards and become cult.
  • Genre as a PromiseGenre is a contract with the audience. What it owes, and what breaks it.

Courses in Russian · English version coming soon

Script analysis · Packaging

Know if it holds before you spend the year.

For producers and writer-directors who decide for themselves. A verdict, not an opinion — what doesn't work, what can be fixed, what can't — and then a project the money can actually see.

A development package: character sheet, world document and a grid of key frames
  • The Read

    5 days

    A full producer's read, scored on IPH — five tiers from philosophical to cultural, a verdict from Legacy to Pass, and the three things to change. Slate option: five or more projects on one scale, ranked.

  • The Look

    3–4 weeks

    The visual answer: references, characters, locations, key frames, and a storyboard built from cinematic frames rather than drawings. The director keeps authorship.

  • The Package

    6–10 weeks

    Script or rewrite, visual answer, teaser material and pitch documents — built for a specific platform, fund, distributor or private financier.

Any stage, even raw · You get the scores, the engine stays mine

Send a project →
25+Years in film and television
20Originals greenlit and supervised at ivi
100M+Pairs of eyes I directed
Posters of original series from the ivi slate

Tell me what you're making.

Reply within 24h · Currently in Abu Dhabi · Working in the US, the Gulf and Europe