Joshua Leake
Portland Film Festival Executive Director
Portland, OR
Portland-based producer and director Josh Leake is the founder and executive director of the Portland Film Festival, which MovieMaker Magazine named one of the world's "coolest" film festivals. He produced GLENA, a feature length documentary that premiered at Slamdance ’14 (now available on Showtime and VOD). His film EMPTYS, a short documentary about people who collect beverage containers as their principal source of income, won first place at Tropfest New York. With his production company, Mindpollen, he's currently developing an adaption of Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby.