About

Leah Cameron is a director and screenwriter who loves telling funny and touching human stories. (The kind that will hopefully make you laugh in that, oh-God-that-character-is-being-so-awkward-and-human kind of way.) A former magazine journalist, she moved to Los Angeles to study screenwriting at the American Film Institute in 2009. She graduated in 2011, receiving the Joseph A. Stefano Scholarship for Excellence In Screenwriting for her work. During her time at the AFI Leah also directed a short modern-day musical called, Subway Harmonies, through BravoFACT and the NSI. Completed in 2010, the film played at numerous international festivals including the Miami Short Film Festival, the Montreal Short Film Festival and Palm Springs where it placed in the Audience Top 30. In 2013, it aired on IChannel, the Sundance Channel and all Air Canada flights. Leah has also directed and/or written several narrative shorts. The Lion Shadows, which she wrote, made the official selection at CameraImage in Poland and The East End Festival in London and Ninulla, a film about a woman grieving the loss of her sister, earned a special jury mention at Dokufest 2.0 in Kosovo.  In 2013 Leah returned to Toronto, where she story edited, associate produced and directed segments on two seasons of the pop cultural web series, Where Cool Came From hosted by Globe and Mail architecture critic, Dave LeBlanc. In 2016, she moved a little closer to her dream of working in narrative television when show-runners, Morwyn Brebner and Wil Zmak, asked her to help create pilots for two dramatic television series in development with CTV. Leah’s feature adaptation of Marian Churchland’s graphic novel BEAST for director Will Blank is also currently in development. Leah is passionate about directing and has spent the last few years juggling paid gigs with time spent developing material she would like to direct.

Through WIDC she developed her comedy web series, The Communist’s Daughter, which is inspired by her childhood experience of growing up with Communists parents in the thick of the Reagan 80s. The Communist’s Daughter is WIDC’s nominee to the 2018 Telefilm Talent to Watch program. It earned funding from the Independent Production Fund and will be pitched at Yuk Yuks and premiered on CBC Gem spring 2021.