John Lechago

John Lechago April 4 1969 July 22 2026 was born in Kingston Ontario Canada to an Argentinean mother and a Spanish father At age four the family moved to Los Angeles California From an early childhood Lechago was fascinated by drawing and would spend hours creating monsters and reproducing what he saw around him The rest of the time John would spend playing with his fraternal twin brother At age nine Lechago was enrolled in traditional oil painting classes and thrived winning awards every year he was with the school This strong base in traditional painting would be very influential in Lechagos approach to his filmmaking later in life John was also enrolled at an early age in self defense classes Coincidentally the school that his father chose for his young sons was one owned by Chuck Norris On the second day of karate class the teachers showed a 16mm film print of Chuck Norriss first film Breaker Breaker 1977 Lechago looked around the class realizing that most of the adults were also getting beaten up by the head teacher in the film Three and a half years later at age ten Lechago and his brother James were part of a childrens class in Chuck Norriss A Force of One 1979 Being on set and seeing how scenes are actually set up and shot was a major motivator It was at that point that Lechago decided that he would be involved in the movies As a teenager John began studying screen writing and shooting scenes with the video cameras of the day He went so far as to found the Cinema Productions club at his high school After high school Lechago attended the prestigious art school SAIC in Chicago concentrating in film and then finished his degree in film at the Columbia College Chicago When Lechago returned to Los Angeles he tried to get work on a movie set but as luck would have it there was an actors strike at the time John had to get work with a corporate video company A few months later the owner of the company out of curiosity gave John 5000 and allowed him to use the cameras and office space to make a film Lechago teamed up with Vincent Bilancio and made his first feature Blood Gnome Video 2004 Despite being a very low budget movie and being shot in only 12 days it was distributed in Europe Asia and North America Lechago would make one more film with Turning Point Productions Magus 2008 before making his first self produced feature Contagion 2010 formerly known as Bio Slime Lechago would follow up with writing and directing Killjoy 3 Video 2010 For Charles Band and Full Moon Features IMDb mini biography by Stuntchild