Brett Leonard

Brett Leonard born May 14 1959 is an American film director producer and music video director specialising in the science fiction and horror genres A few of his films such as The Lawnmower Man 1992 and Virtuosity 1995 feature groundbreaking computer animation and visual effects Leonards work with the IMAX 3D process set him apart from most directors having gained early experience with this cuttingedge presentation medium directing TRex Back to the Cretaceous in IMAX 3D The film became the first numberone hit 3D movie to gross over 100 million worldwide on IMAX screens alone He created a sensation when he took his Swarm CamFusion Station onto The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and with guest Billy Idol implemented one of the first live webcasts ever from the House of Blues in Los Angeles Creative Artists Agency and Intel Corporation hired him to direct a stateoftheart interactive show for CAAIntel Media Lab to introduce the Hollywood community to the future of entertainment digitising actor Danny DeVito and using live performance animation to create the interactive animated character Mr Head who guided the audienceparticipants through the experience In the music video genre Brett directed Peter Gabriels Kiss That Frog the first allcomputer graphic CGI music videomotion simulator ride film to tour the world becoming the wildly popular themed entertainment attraction to win him a 1994 MTV Music Video Award In 2009 Brett directed the documentary Hole in the Head A Life Revealed This featurelength documentary tells the story of Vertus Hardiman and nine other young children attending the same elementary school in Lyles Station Indiana who in 1927 were severely irradiated during a medical experiment conducted at the local county hospital The experiment was misrepresented as a newly developed cure for the scalp fungus known as ringworm In reality the ringworm fungus was merely the lure used to gain access to innocent children whose unsuspecting parents blindly signed permission slips for the treatment Vertus was five years old and the youngest after 20 years of friendship with writerproducer Wilbert Smith through their church choir Vertus tells Wilbert his story exposing the severe physical complications caused by the experiments This crime had severe physical complications for Vertusnamely a harshly irradiated and malformed head with an actual hole in his skull In 2012 Brett formed a new concept in musical cinema called PopFictionLife Seeing the proliferation of small highdefinition screens on smartphones tablets and laptops PopfictionLife FragFilms are fulllength feature movies with existing artists that have multiple free Frags fragments of the movie that are watchable shareable and embeddable in social media blogs and webpages Bretts latest film is a PopFictionLife FragFilm called The Other CountryStarring Burlap to Cashmere The film also stars Samantha Lockwood and Americas Next Top Model winner Nicole Fox In 2017 he called for a use of the term virtual experience instead of virtual reality Description above from the Wikipedia article Brett Leonard licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia