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Bobby Leigh has over twenty years in the Music and Entertainment Business where he has produced and/or toured with such major Rock-N-Roll multi-platinum legends as Aerosmith, Guns--N-Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kiss, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Prince, Quiet Riot, Night Ranger, Joan Jett, The Specials, Social Distortion, The Offspring, and Staind.
As a personal manager for 4 Non Blondes he catapulted their careers to 12 million records sold world-wide in only 9 months.
Coming off of a successful television career as an actor, which included notable roles such as "Lefty" for the Sony Pictures Television/The WB network "The Mayor" with Lary Miller. Kate Hudson's inmate boyfriend "Lee" for Touchstone Television/ABC's "That Was Then," and a recurring role on the ABC Family Pilot "East of Normal, West of Weird," Leigh moved behind the camera into feature films.
Leigh recently served as a producer on THE GIFT...At Risk starring Vince Vaughn and Randy Travis, which debuted at the Monaco Film Festival. For Visualiner Entertainment, Bobby was a producer on the Award Winning feature film STRIPPED DOWN staring Ian Ziering ("Beverly Hills 90210" and "Dancing with the Stars,") The film, which took three awards at the Silver Lake Film Festival, including Outstanding Achievement in Production, has been sold to eight European Markets including CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) and Ukraine, and will have an American theatrical release in 2008. Recently he produced THE GUITAR PLAYER'S GIRLFRIEND, winner of the Los Angeles Screenwriting Competition sponsored by KODAK and PANAVISION. The film has played numerous film festivals including Cannes Festival du Film 2007. With Filmmakers Alliance, Leigh produced PLUS or MINUS: A Few Things I Thought I Should Consider with director Amanda Swikow. Leigh recently directed the Children's film IT'S ALL AN ILLUSION for Christopher Coppola's Project Access Hollywood. The film, which took 3rd place in the best picture category, is currently on the festival circuit. Bobby is currently in production, directing the documentary feature film HOLODOMOR an expose on the Ukrainian genocide perpetrated by Joseph Stalin. Other film credits include INFIDELITY, CHILDLIKE VIOLENCE, BURNING MAN, BROKEN and BUTTERFLY SKY.
Bobby served as a producer for three "MTV Video Awards" Television shows, two in New York City and one in Dublin. Bobby also produced "VISIONFEST/The Vision Awards" for Filmmakers Alliance and the Directors Guild of America for 4 years in a row. Vision Award honorees include such renowned filmmakers as Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Wim Wenders, Allison Anders, Alexander Payne, David O'Russell, Werner Herzog, Michael and Mark Polish and Laura Dern.
He's an active member of the PGA (Producers Guild of America) FIND (Film Independent, {formally IFP}), CAA (Creative Actors Alliance), NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers), IP (Independent Producers), IFF (International Film Binance,) Film Pro Finance and Filmmaker's Alliance.
Hometown
Hollywood
Country
United States
Occupation
Filmmaker
Companies
Moksha Films / Visualiner Entertainment
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