aWake
A closeted man (Mark Arnold) confronts his complicated
relationship with one-time lover Marcus (Leon Acord), a man dying of AIDS who is throwing his own wake.
Cast: MARK ARNOLD, LEON ACORD & STEPHANIE KEEFER
Written by NATHANIEL ATCHESON Director of Photography O'CONNER HERTNETT Directed
by PATRICK DAWN
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Watch the complete film aWake by clicking HERE
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The Cave
Leon plays "Helmholtz Watson" in this short film,
inspired by Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, that mixes live
action with both computer-generated and hand-drawn animation.
Cast: ADRIANO ARAGON, LEON ACORD & AVA
BOGLE
Cinematographer: WILLIAM CARNAHAN Written & directed
by LEONARD MENCHIARI
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Who Am I?
Leon plays sweet-yet-sleazy Hollywood agent Mike to ethnically ambiguous actor Alon Longstein (Alex Luria) in this show biz comedy short.
Cast: ALEX LURIA, LEON ACORD Written & directed by ALON LONGSTEIN
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Zero Tolerance
An alcoholic wife signs up with a recovery program that promises results -- no matter what the cost.
Cast: AUDREY FIORINI, LEON ACORD, MARK McCULLOUGH Director of Photography ADAM HALL Written & directed by ANTHONY BUSHMAN
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Inside Leo Krempkin's Brain
Leon plays a shut-down accountant who's living in his own head -- literally -- in this whimsical short!
Cast: LEON ACORD, BECK BENNETT and KYLE MOONEY Produced by JONATHAN LEVINE and JAYDI SAMUELS Written & directed by JACKIE FISKE
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Scared to Live
A young girl slowly withdraws from the dangers of the world after she and her single dad (Leon) are mugged at knife-point.
Cast: JULIANNA KELLER, LEON ACORD Written, Produced & Directed by TAMARA ROSENFELD
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Paramedic
A young man seeks revenge after witnessing the death of his father (Leon) at the hands of a negligent paramedic.
Cast:
TYLER SEDUSTINE, NOEL SCHWAB, MILES HEIZER, LEON ACORD, MARIAN ZAPICO,
JEFF DAVIS Produced & Shot by ANDY WOLF Written & Directed by
LIOR CHEFETZ
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Unsheltered Love
A lovelorn homeless man creates an artistic sensation when his "hobo art" is subsidized by art
dealer "Benedict St. George." (Leon).
Cast: FRED MASKE, BRITTANY ROSSIE
SHAW, NICOLE SIMONE, LEON ACORD, JACKIE PENN Producced by JACOB AVNET
Cinematography JONAKO DONLEY Directed by MATT HENICK
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Deer Season
A big-city accountant (Leon) relys on a grizzled red-neck (Chris Stone) for assistance after he is stranded in the boondocks in the hilarious graduate short.
Cast:
LEON ACORD, CHRIS STONE, BAADJA Written by DEREK STRICKER Produced by
BRYAN McKOWN & RYANN LAUCKNER Cinematographers DAVID CARSTENS &
CARL MILLER Directed by ARVIN BAUTISTA
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Gabriel
His mother's death
leads a desperate man to confess to his priest (Leon) the shocking sin he is
about to commit in this tale of revenge and good vs. evil.
Cast: JASON BUUCK, LEON ACORD Written & Directed by CHRISTOPHER WEAVER
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Divorce: American Style
Elena Fabri and Leon play obsessive-compulsive battling ex-spouses, each determined to drive the other out of the house, in Ryann Lauckner's comedy short.
Cast:
LEON ACORD, ELENA FABRI, DALIA VOSYLIUS, DANNA JONES & JENNIFER
KRAMER Cinematographer CARL MILLER Written & Directed by RYANN
LAUCKNER
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Found Objekts
In a world without eating utensils, an obsessive proofreader's compulsions lead him to invent the "fourk" in Rob Connelly's Kaufman-esque comedy.
Cast: LEON ACORD, SHO THYME, SARA AKTEH, SEAN-MICHAEL SMITH Written & Directed ROB CONNELLY
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October's Chosen
Leon plays a Jewish concentration camp prisoner whose family is terrorized by Nazis in Leor Ram's short film, based on his family's own shocking true story.
Cast: JOE FUHR, DANNA JONES, ANNA HOLLAENDER, LEON ACORD, TOM COCHRAN & KEVIN FERGUSON Written & Directed by LEOR RAM
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Murky Water
Leon and Jennifer Kramer play dueling siblings on the boardwalk in Abe Espinoza's stylized and enigmatic film noir.
Cast: LEON ACORD & JENNIFER KRAMER Written & Directed by ABE ESPINOZA
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Family Game
Leon
is an unfaithful husband and father, who's facade of happy
family life is betrayed by his family's innermost thoughts during a
routine dinner.
Cast: LEON ACORD, HEIDEMARIE FUENTES, BRETT NEWTON & COURTNEY FINE Written & Directed by WOOJA PARK
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Drive Thru
Leon voices the employee of the world's first drive-thru sex-change clinic in this comedic animated short by Jed Bell (Foucault Who?).
Cast: LEON ACORD and STANLY CRASS Written & Directed by JED BELL
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The Currycomb
Leon plays a stern British doctor and father in this anti-war coming-of-age tale set in 1914 California.
Cast:
DYLAN VANDERBERG, LEON ACORD, ZACHARY SCHRAMM & LISA JOYNT Director
of Photography DAVID BOUSQUENT
Written & Directed by FULTEN ERSUN
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Birds of Lightning
Stranded in
the distant past with no provisions, a dedicated biologist &
anenvironmental journalist find they are now the endangered
species.
Cast: LEON ACORD, HEATHER RAE GAVIN & ZACH JORDAN Written & Directed by FABIO BLANCARTE DIAZ
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Foucault WHO?
This
chilling short, starring Leon as a doomed barfly, has screened at
film fests around the globe & on Australian TV.
Cast:
LEON ACORD, GRAYLIN THORNTON, WALTER DELMAR, JAYSON MATTHEWS & JEFF
DE LUCIO-BROCK Written by WICKIE STAMPS Directed by JED BELL
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Final Remains (a.k.a. Mortuary)
Leon plays a mortician suspected of multiple murders in this feature-length thriller written & directed by Shawn Hazeleur.
Cast: LEON ACORD, HEATHER HARTMANN, MICHELLE BELLEVAR, PHIL SHERIDAN
Written & Directed by SHAWN HAZELAUR
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A Quiet Place
The staff of a 1940s restaurant fantasize about an alcoholic regular. Based on Hemingway's short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.
Cast: MARIA CLANCHINI, LEON ACORD, ANDY FREEMAN, MICHAEL SOMMERS Written & Directed by AMY MITCHELL
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A Rat in the Can
Leon plays the victim of an ancient, grisly torture technique in this short film.
Cast: LEON ACORD & STEPHEN PAULEY
Written & Directed by DAVID GAZ
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I'm Screwed!
Leon's a sleazy masseur/landlord in the story of an evicted woman's search for affordable housing in San Francisco's Mission District.
Cast:
SHANTI PRASAD, LEON ACORD, LAUREN GARRIQUES, ALEXANDRA MATTHEWS &
ROBERT TAYLOR Written & Directed by MERCEDES BAUER
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One or Two Things About ...
Four guys wager over which one knows the real definition of true love.
Cast: LEON ACORD, WEST LIANG, JUSTIN MILLER & ERIC MOORE Written & Directed by JEFFREY CHU
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about dominance & submission
Leon
plays a full-time "slave" in this exploration of S&M lifestyles,
based on interview transcripts. Winner of the Robert Bell
Outstanding Achievement Award.
Cast: JEAN MAZZEI & LEON ACORD Written & Directed by PAULO GUIMARAES
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Breath
Leon
plays a street hustler in this poetic film elegy that shows the effects
of death on those left behind. Winner of various Best Shorts awards at
film fests worldwide.
Cast:
ERIK KEVER RYLE, JANET KELLER, CHRISTOPH SCHMID, PAUL GERRIOR, LEON
ACORD & HENRY SHERE Written & Directed by CHRISTOS DIMAS
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Housebound
An unlikely, bittersweet love story between two agoraphobes.
Cast: GIOIA de CARI, LEON ACORD & GEORGE KILLINGSWORTH Directed by WILLIAM DAVENPORT
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Some Prefer Cake
Leon
plays "Devon" in this hilarious feature, which Variety called "lively
& likeable." Following fests around the globe & being
distributed theatrically in Britain, Some Prefer Cake is now available in the USA from Wolfe Video.
Cast:
KATHLEEN FONTAINE, TARA HOWLEY, DESI del VALLE, LEON ACORD &
MACHIKO SAITO Written by JEANNIE KAHANEY Directed by HEIDI ARENSEN
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Metalman
A washed-up porn star wakes up after a black-out to find an internal organ has been removed--is it in the package bellboy Leon offers?
Cast: CHRIS ENRIGHT, JEFFREY PALMER, GIOIA de CARI & LEON ACORD Written & Directed by KURT KEPPLER
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Roommates & Cafe a.k.a. Coffee Mates
Leon
played a filmmaker stalking a critic in this ensemble dramedy about an
odd assortment of characters who frequent an Oakland coffee shop.
Cast: JUDD DUNNING, SUSAN MARTINO, SCOTT RAGLE, KATIE DAVIS & LEON ACORD Written & Directed by LISBON OBIEZE OKAFOR
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OUT
Leon wrote, directed and starred as an agoraphobe who, confronting his fear of the outside world, becomes lost in San Francisco's Tenderloin district.
Cast: LEON ACORD, GERARD J. KUYKENDALL, JOHN LEE, SAMI ANTOINETTE & ELDO ESTES Written & Directed by LEON ACORD
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