In the press
aN iNTERVIEW WITH jAVIER CHAVEZ AND hEIDI lEVITT AT AFI Fest 2024
Walk With Me director Heidi Levitt sits down with AFI Fest associate programmer Javier Chavez to discuss discovering her voice as a director and how her background as a casting director informed the process of making of the film.
AFI Fest 2024 Interview: Heidi Levitt on Bringing a Disease You Can’t See Into Sharp Relief in “Walk with Me”
The longtime casting director discusses turning the camera on herself and her husband in a battle against Alzheimer’s in this intimate doc.
Walk with me gets Best Documentary Feature Special Mention at HIFF
At the Hamptons International Film Festival, the documentary jury recognized “Walk with Me” with a Special Jury Prize for director Heidi Levitt’s “intimacy and generosity.”
A Conversation with Filmmaker Heidi Levitt in inside out
I made this film because I felt there was so much stigma around dementia. It is a silent pandemic, and people don’t understand how to talk about it and how to be inclusive. The American model is to build memory care units and separate those whose memories are intact from those who aren’t.