: Biography - Leslie La Page
For
the past fifteen years Leslie La Page has produced, directed and line
produced for Film, TV, Music Videos, commercials and Theatrical
productions.
Ms. La Page has produced features nationally and internationally in both
the independent and commercial markets.
Ms. La Page has over eight years of production background in independent
films, and has served as producer, line producer and film production
coordinator on numerous independent feature films for independent
production companies as well as Black Entertainment Television Action
Pay Per View (BET). While at BET she line produced their entire slate of
original programs which aired on their network and received
international and domestic video releases. She line produced commercials
and promos for the HBO, Lifetime TV and BET, MTV and Nickelodeon.
Her production experience also involves her in the areas of marketing,
developing scripts, creating promotional copy as well as promotional
feature spots and trailers.
In 1997 Ms. La Page ran and operated TIGER'S EYE SOUND a dialogue
editorial company, with her partner Bruce Murphy, editing and working
with numerous awarding winning dialogue editors and editing over 20
independent feature films in the company's first year. Ms. La Page and
TIGER'S EYE SOUND dialogue edited such critically acclaimed films as:
1998 Academy Awards Nominee, Best Foreign Film - "Four Days in
September"; 1998 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for "Smoke
Signals"; and the film "Dead Man's Curve" was a Sundance Film Festival
Invitee.
In 2003, her Partner Saul Stein, Co-Executive Producer of "The Holy
Land" has formed BooYah! Films and have released through Cavu Pictures
the critically acclaimed film "The Holy Land", which opened domestically
in July at the Angelica Theatre in New York City and will be rolling out
to 45 cities across the nation. She still has her production company
Infinity Films which is involved in feature film, music video, and
commercial productions.
Ms. La Page also, consults independent filmmakers for feature films,
script analysis, budgets, independent marketing, and film festivals and
currently teaches at the New York Film Academy as an adjunct professor.
She has been a Slamdance Film Festival Programmer for over five years
and was the creator and Executive Producer for the Slamdance Filmmaker's
Bootcamp. For the last two years Ms. LaPage holds the position of
Director of Programming for the New Orleans Media Experience Film
Festival (NOME 2003) occurring in Louisiana October 26- November 1st.
Ms. LaPage holding the position of Director of Programming platformed
over 65 short films (live action and animation), 10 features, and 5
documentaries. Five out of the ten features platformed at NOME 2003 went
on to have theatrical distribution: Show Boy, Nursie, Hungry Hearts, Dog
Walker and Flavors.
Ms. La Page holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, Bachelor of
Administration in Marketing, Accounting and a Master of Fine Arts in
Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts.
