Bio

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Born in the city of Tucumán - Argentina in 1967. He found his passion for   filmmaking by accident. He questioned the precarious situation of his high school with his super 8 camera. The result was a sarcastic “Pin, self-critical, 15-minute short movie”, loaded with humor, based in “Pink Floyd’s The Wall” where the student fall into a giant meat chopper as soon as they get the diploma. The impact was such that the following years the students made two more films for which he was called on to be the director once again. This productions were made during a time were there was the unprecedented fact that the dictatorship “handed out” a heavy toll on the student’s impetus to express their views.
He focussed on the need to transmit his ideas through film, which was an unusual profession in the small city of Tucumán. There were a few options in this environment and he concluded that neither the low budget TV programs nor the TV commercial had a lot to do his vision. It was at this point when he turned towards business, searching for the means to be able to teach himself filmmaking and make these films.
It was on this path that in 1988 his first business started. He started a successful video store, an activity that kept him close to his passion.  Parallel to this, in 1992, he started a new venture in real estate and water bottling business.  This has allowed him to produce numerous projects.  And traveled to the US, Europe, the Caribbean, and Canada to meet independent filmmakers and exchange ideas. When he finally gathered the resources, Leandro partnered up with his filmmaking partner Leopoldo Rojas Juarez and formed a film production company, ZELIG Entertainment ltd.  They work in a completely independent way under the strong influence of the filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, who changed the way independent films are made; with his feature film “El Mariachi¨ produced with just US$ 7,000.
Following Robert Rodriguez’s steps, Leandro wrote, produced and directed “Fin de Semana”, a 30 min drama, and a TV program “ Cocinando con Mrs. Pusi” and numerous collaborations as drama shorts for Eva Urrutia’s “Los Hijos de la historia” during his first year  “ Then he bought the option for “El Sexto Dia”, an award winning script written by Argentinean writer Dalmiro Saenz, then he  traveled to the USA and Mexico to learn more about low budget filmmaking and to find the rigth place to develop his new script.  While in the USA, he received an invitation to screen “Fin de Semana” in Canada. In Vancouver he met people that he describes as “The most up to a challenge and committed people that I could have ever expected to find” but after one year working there he realize that Robert Rodriguez’s principles were almost impossible to apply in an film industry oriented City.
He went back to Tucuman to continue developing several projects for film and bussines. In 2003 he start with Leopoldo Rojas, The Zelig Brothers, a visual artist team who has produced the Electronic Music Sessions and has visualized the music of the main dance clubs in Tucuman and all major events and parties. In 2007 Leandro started neverhappenland.com as an independent producing company with the idea to make films happen in a way that not only entertain but to make people give a second thought to any established thinking. With a couple successful projects already shot in Tucuman and Buenos Aires, in 2011 Leandro has moved to USA and started a new production project called BASTA CHE but most of the time until today was invested in opening and directing a school of alternative education for his son! So Montessori Blue School was Born and now a virtual school called Montessorri Nova!