Actors

Gary Lee Vincent

Gary Lee Vincent

Gary Lee Vincent (b. 1974) was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and is an accomplished actor, producer, director, author, musician, and entrepreneur. Gary has appeared in multiple plays and concerts throughout his life but got his motion picture acting debut at the age of 40 in the horror movie "Belly Timber" starring in the role of George Pogue, one of the founders of Indianapolis. He is most known for directing the 2020 motion picture remake of John Russo's "Midnight," where he played Bert Johnson (a role originally played by Lawrence Tierney in the 1982 original feature). He also received acclaim with his supporting lead role in "My Uncle John Is A Zombie," where he played Oscar, the crass bodyguard and nephew of Uncle John. His first directorial debut was in the faith-based film, "A Promise to Astrid," starring Dean Cain. He went on to direct "Desk Clerk," "Dispatched," and co-directed "John Light," "Jack Jonah," "A Child of the King," "Coronavirus: Patient Zero," and "Coronavirus: Perfect Storm." As an actor, he has starred in over fifty feature films, including "My Friend Dahmer," "S.K.B.," "Wrestlemassacre," "Killer Campout," "The Kingsbury Run," "Above Suspicion," "Solver," "Nightblade," "The Final Interview," "Her Name Was Christa" and many others. In television, he has starred or worked on "Mindhunter" (Season 1), "House of Cards" (Season 5), "The Walking Dead" (Season 8), and "Stranger Things" (Seasons 2 and 3). In 2010, his horror novel "Darkened Hills" was selected as 2010 Book of the Year winner by Foreword Reviews Magazine and became the pilot novel for a six-book series of vampire books called "Darkened," which includes the novels "Darkened Hills," "Darkened Hollows," "Darkened Waters," "Darkened Souls," "Darkened Minds," and "Darkened Destinies." He also co-authored the novel adaptation of "Belly Timber" with best-selling author John Russo, Solon Tsangaras, Dustin Kay, and Ken Wallace, and "Attack of the Melonheads" with screenwriter Bob Gray and Solon Tsangaras. As a musician, Gary has produced three CDs: "100 Percent," "Passion, Pleasure, & Pain," and "Somewhere Down the Road." Gary is the founder of Burning Bulb Publishing, a media company focused on independent story development, feature film production, and distribution.
Gary Leva

Gary Leva

Filmmaker and film historian Gary Leva has distinguished himself as the creative force behind scores of documentaries, broadcast programs and Special Features, many of them focused on the cinematic arts. His feature documentary, Fog City Mavericks, which highlights 100 years in the history of San Francisco's vibrant filmmaking community, had its world premiere at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival prior to its continuing life on cable television and disc. Leva's documentaries have made a lasting contribution to the history of film. His award- winning A Legacy of Filmmakers premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and received a New York Film Society screening at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. This documentary illuminates the creation of Francis Ford Coppola's landmark film company American Zoetrope, set against the changing landscape of American cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film is now a part of the curricula at several top universities. Leva's celebrated documentaries on the cinema of George Lucas span the entire range of Lucas' career, from his earliest student films to his first feature, THX 1138, to the Star Wars series and beyond. His collections of documentaries on filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood and Stanley Kubrick are often regarded as the top anthology on each of these master's works. Having earned a distinguished reputation as a leader in his field, Leva continues to work with the top filmmakers of our time, including Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Robert Redford, Oliver Stone and many others. Beyond the world of cinema, Leva has produced documentaries on subjects as varied as the struggle for investigative journalists to stay relevant in the Internet age and the ways in which the achievements of Alexander the Great are reflected in our modern lives. Other projects include the award-winning narrative feature film, Plan B, starring Jon Cryer, the mockumentary R2-D2: Beneath the Dome, broadcast nationally on Fox, and 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year, broadcast nationally on TCM. Leva is an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.=