Leah Bleich is an LA-based director, producer and writer. Leah recently completed her feature directorial debut, THE MOON AND BACK, which won awards at Academy Award-qualifying film festivals across the country before being acquired by Lionsgate-subsidiary Grindstone Entertainment. Leah was one of eleven directors selected for MTV Entertainment Studios’s First Time Director’s Initiative, during which she wrote and directed an ad campaign that aired nationally on MTV & Comedy Central. Recently, Leah sold a six-episode scripted podcast to AudioUp Media, wrote a feature on assignment for MarVista Entertainment, directed multiple episodes of a popular webseries, and directed a two-episode docu-series for PBS and Roadtrip Nation. At the moment, she has five short films in post-production and festivals, and is in development on her second feature film.

Leah combines her perspective as a director with a background as a development executive. She began her career in the mailroom at Creative Artists Agency, and became a Development Executive at Solstice Studios, where she worked closely on the films UNHINGED with Russell Crowe and HYPNOTIC with Ben Affleck. Most recently, she served as a Creative Executive in Comedy TV for Just For Laughs, where she produced projects with talent including Marlon Wayans, Diplo, Pete Holmes, Nicole Byer, and Nikki Glaser.

Nothing makes her happier than making audiences laugh and cry at the same time.