Leo is a Montreal-based film-maker with twenty-five years of writing, directing and producing experience for major broadcasters including BBC, Channel 4, ARTE, APTN, Radio Canada, Discovery ID, AHC, History Channel, National Geographic, and others.

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His work as a showrunner, series / episodic director and writer includes Fatal Vows and Guilty Rich for Discovery ID/Amazon Prime, Natural Born Outlaws and How the World Ends for AHC, Trashopolis for History Television, Monsterquest for History Channel (US) and The Cell (Les Mystères de Monte Sana), a feature documentary-drama for ARTE about the politics and science of stem cell research (nominated for best science/tech doc at the Banff Television Festival.)

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Other credits include the TVO/Radio-Canada science series Human Plus, about the future of the human senses, the Discovery Canada/Five series Mayday, and That’s AWSM!, a fun formatted series for indigenous teens.

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Leo has also ghost-written two non-fiction books, which were published to accompany the BBC Science landmark series Human Instinct and Superhuman, and he is currently developing a feature documentary about biodiversity and the sixth extinction.

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