Producer and writer Adrian Levy was a former foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times, and then The Guardian, where he won the One World award for foreign writing, and was made One World Media’s Press Journalist of the Year, having been part of a team that won the British Press Awards.
He has co-written nine books, with Cathy Scott-Clark including, Deception, 2008, on the AQ Khan nuclear smuggling network, was a Washington Post Book of the Year, and finalist in the Royal United Services Institute, Duke of Westminster’s medal for Military History. The Meadow (Penguin 2012), a police procedural about Western backpackers kidnapped in Kashmir, won the Ramnath Goenka Award in India, as the best of non fiction. Best seller, The Siege, an account of the 26/11 assaults on Mumbai, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. Their sixth non-fiction book, ‘The Exile’, (Bloomsbury, 2017), tracked Osama bin laden and family on the run from Afghanistan and into Pakistan. In 2021, Spy Stories was published, on the war between Pakistan spies of the ISI and India’s spooks at RAW. In 2022, The Forever Prisoner (Grove, 2022), accompanied the HBOMax feature doc of the same name. In 2026, Grove will publish Bombay Lieutenant, an organised crime face-off, which starts in Bombay and never finishes.
Adrian co-wrote the scripted drama Kandahar Hijack, for Netflix, produced by Matchbox Shots / Banares Media, directed by Anubhav Sinha. He is working on series two. He has produced documentaries for HBOMax, PBS, History Channel, BBC 1, BBC 2, C4, Facebook and VICE TV. In 2022, he won an Emmy for feature documentary, The Forever Prisoner, directed by Academy award winner Alex Gibney. Other films include ‘City of Fear’, on Pakistan’s bloodiest year, nominated at the Edinburgh International Television Festival; Kashmir Trail, that won the 2013 Amnesty International award, and was short-listed for the Grierson award, and was a finalist in the Rory Peck awards.
Adrian also Produces for Each One Entertainment in LA, Mumbai and London, founded by Producer Pratima Naithani, an artist and music prodigy, who is incubating new features, documentaries and scripted series by writers and directors from communities under represented on screen.
