LA Coles Fine Art Films/ 2053152 Ontario Inc. is a boutique production company under the stewardship of Leslie Ann Coles.
Coles is a freelance screenwriter and filmmaker who has worked - with scripted and non-scripted material - in a variety of genres, including shorts and features, television, documentary, and transmedia. A key strength is her ability to creatively strategize projects and determine their potential with collaborators during the development and pre-production process, always with a critical understanding of a film's milieu, be it social, cultural, or art-focused.
Her multi-award-winning feature documentary "Melody Makers" - and companion interactive digital media (IDM) - was released in 2019 with the support of Telefilm Canada.
Coles is an award-winning screenwriter/filmmaker. She became a member of the Writers Guild of Canada and the Directors Guild of Canada in 2019. Coles enjoys working in scripted and unscripted material.
When working with scripted material, she understands actors' artistic processes intuitively, having trained and worked as a professional actor. She gravitates to realism and nuanced characters and enjoys stories with compelling, character-driven dialogue and action.
With an extensive background in dance and choreography, Coles is very good at tracking movement and loves action. In the documentary landscape, she excels at conducting and directing interviews.
Coles directed children and youth in the performing arts before moving into film and TV.
She looks forward to tapping in to her many skills and her broad experience as she transitions to directing television and movies while continuing to develop her own original work as writer and director.
To that end, Coles will direct and produce "The Curtain," with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and ACTRA's TiP (Toronto Indie Production) program in late summer/early fall.
Her feature screenplay, "Soiled Dove," is a winner of 11 finalist international screenwriting awards, which ranks in the top 1% of more than 50,000 screenplays currently on Coverfly.
Coles dedicated 18 years to modern dance as a choreographer/performer and arts educator before transitioning from the stage to the screen in 2001 with her debut film, "In the Refrigerator," which she wrote, directed, and starred in.
It screened at 35 international film festivals and garnered 13 awards: Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Short Film, Best Film, Best Debut Filmmaker, Best Avant-Garde, and the Grand Jury Award: Filmmaker in an Acting Role. "In the Refrigerator" was invited to screen before the Oscar jury by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Live Action.
Coles is an alumna of the Women in the Director's Chair program and is the founder and executive director of The Female Eye Film Festival (FeFF). In her capacity as festival director, she evaluates and selects independent films from more than 2,500 international entries every year; she has become intimately familiar with the local and international filmmaking communities. IMDb Mini Biography By: Leslie Ann Coles
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