David Leaf

David Leaf is a Peabody and WGAW award-winning writer, director, producer and the creative visionary behind such critically acclaimed films and festival favorites as Focal Award winner "The Night James Brown Saved Boston", "The U.S. vs. John Lennon'" (winner of the Exhibitors' Award at The Venice Film Festival), the Grammy-nominated "Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of SMiLE", "The Bee Gees: This Is Where I Came In", and the forthcoming feature "Dion: Born To Cry." His television credits include being one of the writers on the Emmy-winning landmark 9/11, all-network telethon "America: A Tribute To Heroes." That same year, Leaf wrote and produced "TNT's An-All Star Tribute To Brian Wilson," a consultant on the long-running, A&E music series "Live By Request" and was a producer of the Emmy-nominated "Billy Joel: In His Own Words" (A&E). Additionally, since 2010, David Leaf has been teaching undergraduate courses at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music in L.A. including courses on music documentary, hit songwriting (from the rock era to today) and the Beatles.