Leon Ford

Writer | Director

Leon Ford wrote and directed his first feature, Griff the Invisible (GreenPark Pictures), starring Ryan Kwanten in 2010. The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and was recognised with award nominations including an AACTA Award win for ‘Best Screenplay’. It went on to screen around the world, which included a screening at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011.

Leon’s first short film, The Mechanicals, was selected for Competition at Venice Film Festival 2005, London Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Palm Springs Film Festival and has won more than 8 awards worldwide. His half hour film, Katoomba (AFC) won the Dendy Award at the Sydney Film Festival 2007, Best Film and Best Director at St. Kilda Film Festival 2008 and screened in competition at Clermont-Ferrand, Melbourne and Flickerfest Film Festivals.

In 2009 Leon published his first novel, What Doesn’t Kill You, which was published by Pan Macmillan.

Leon is also an accomplished writer for television. He has written episodes across five seasons of Offspring (Channel Ten, 2012-17) for Southern Star, House Husbands (2012) for Playmaker and the Nine Network; as well as the AACTA Award-winning Rush (2010-11) for Southern Star and the Ten Network. Leon’s other credits include Squinters (Jungle Entertainment/ ABC, 2018), Wanted (Matchbox Pictures/ Channel Seven, 2018) as well as the Tim Minchin comedy vehicle, Upright (Foxtel, 2019) for Lingo Pictures. In 2021-2022, Leon wrote two episodes of the first Binge Original series, Love Me, for Warner Bros. International Television, Aquarius Films and director Emma Freeman, and wrote further episodes on series two, in addition to script producing. 

 Most recently, he wrote the screenplay for the feature film The Portable Door, which Leon adapted from Tom Holt’s fantasy novel series. The film was directed by Jeffrey Walker and boasts an international cast that includes Christoph Waltz, Sam Neil, Miranda Otto and Patrick Gibson.

He is currently developing original series concepts independently and with local production companies.

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