Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Leigh Slawner moved to Los Angeles at the age of 18 to attend USC's prestigious School of Cinema-Television. While in school he obtained an internship working for Roger Corman's Concorde Pictures. At Concorde, he worked in production, marketing and development.Upon graduation, at the age of 22, he successfully produced and directed his first feature film Beach House. He followed that up four years later with Art House, a comedy that was an official selection at the Aspen U.S. Comedy Arts festival.For a period of six years he left Hollywood to pursue other ventures including ownership of a popular college bar near U.C.L.A. After the bar experience he set out on a world wide tour that included meeting Tibetan monks, searching for escaped Nazis in South America, and an extended period of time working for a covert, British intelligence agency.In 2004 he returned to Hollywood to work for The Asylum. A genre film company which produces and distributes films for video and cable release. In addition to producing, writing, directing, and editing, Mr. Slawner possesses the power of invisibility which he uses to fight crime on a part time basis.
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