Repertorium Films is headed by creative duo Megan Sanchez-Warner and Leandro Sanchez, who together have an outstanding track record in television, film, commercials and photography.
Leandro Sanchez
Director/ Partner
Leandro Sanchez, partner in Repertorium Films, is a fine art photographer as well as an international Director of commercials and narrative film based out of NYC.
In the advertising world, Leandro has directed numerous advertising campaigns and commercials worldwide, including spots for clients such as: Samsung, Telefonica, Movistar, Procter & Gamble, Pantech, Qwest Telecom, Partnership for a Drug Free America, and many more. Leandro's visual-storytelling has earned him collaborations with such global agencies as FCB, Young & Rubicam, Leo Burnett, TBWA, DDB, SMC-Group, Cheil, Chattem/USA, etc. In addition, Leandro's commercial work has been featured twice in Boards magazine, and has been an official selection of Cannes Cyber Lions. He is represented by numerous companies around the globe as a Director.
View Leandro’s select demo Director’s reel
As a photographer, Leandro’s work with New York City underground magazines has led him to develop his art photography, which has been chosen to be featured by the prominent Life Force Magazine, plus ABSOLUT Art Network and other publications for inclusion in hand-picked monthly selections of featured talent. His photography has also been selected by veteran curator Mark Busacca for the Busacca Gallery in San Francisco (one of Saatchi’s “Galleries of The World” listing). Leandro recently had photographic prints selected for gallery openings at NYC’s Tribeca Open Artists Studio Tour (TOAST), plus London’s St. Bride Foundation Bridewell Theater. Leandro’s fine art photos have also been featured prominently in other web art/design publications in the past year, making the main pages of Lost at E Minor, Fubiz, plus selections ot Saatchi Gallery, iDoll, Laughing Squid, Society 6, etc. Leandro’s collaboration with the magazine Gazelland has earned notoriety for the daring photographic essays. To view Leandro’s most recent photographic work, visit our main portfolio at Cargo Collective, Behance or Saatchi.
Leandro co-wrote and will be directing the upcoming feature film "Bitter Grapes" for Repertorium Films, which will be shot in Latin America in both Spanish and English languages with an international name cast that includes Demian Bichir (Soderbergh's CHE 1 and 2, Showtime's WEEDS) , Laura Harring (Muholland Drive, Love in the time of Cholera), Jacob Vargas (Traffic, Jarhead, Bobby), Julio Cedillo (The three Burrials of Melquiades Estrada, The Alamo) Flora Martinez, Luisa Huertas and Carlos Bardem.
Leandro also co-wrote and will direct the feature film "Narcoticus" for Repertorium Films, following Bitter Grapes. "Narcoticus" already is attracting cast attachments such as Elizabeth Peña (Jacob's Lather, Lone Star). "Narcoticus" will be an USA/European independent co-production.
Leandro’s recent filmed work with New York Times-portrayed artist Joe Mangrum has gained much recognition in the Viral and web world, where several prominent web art/design publications such as Laughing Squid, Lost at E Minor, Fubiz and others have written about Leandro’s Viral series “Portraits” he created/directed for Repertorium Films. (View this video work.)
Leandro has directed spots for Repertorium Films/Pinnacle Pictures such as: The Agent, Cigarmakers and Change Perspectives, in addition to documentary segments for The Gift of New York. Leandro completed in 2006 his short film Side Effects through Pinnacle Pictures/ Repertorium Films, which has shown in festivals such as Tribeca Underground Film Festival, Woods Hole Int«l Film Festival, ifilm/now spike.com, etc.
Another element of Leandro's creative work is his painting, exhibited in galleries in New York City, Miami and the renowned Basel Art Fair. View some of his mural painting samples chosen by curator Laurence Asseraf.
Leandro, a native of Venezuela, moved to Paris at 18 to study French and French civilization at La Sorbonne, as well as Music (percussion). Leandro then attended film school in Paris (E.I.C.A.R) and went on to work on news shows in Boston, USA at the iconic Christian Science monitor. He acquired much of his experience in film in Paris, while working on numerous international productions.
Leandro, who is fluent in English, Spanish and French, resides in New York City and works worldwide as a Director and photographer.
Leandro’s Directing reels links fro reps around the globe:
Email: Leandro at RepertoriumFilms.com
Artist’s Statement - Photography
"Visual interpretations" or "Visual perceptions" are what Leandro calls his unique artistic approach. His fine art photography has an obvious contemporary feel; he utilizes the staging of theatrical situations or magical moments - his work is aimed to reveal the landscapes or atmospheres where light is not visible by the unaide eye. These situations are constructed for hours and the image is achieved when a perfect balance of light and the surreal are captured in his ethereal night photography. These often-cinematic tableaux, with their surreal scenes, are made by long exposures at times with stroboscope light or photoflash, a combination of many elements played in a balance with movement or nature to give a final staged composition. Inspired by Daguerreotype long exposures, creating at times a modern vision and approach to very long exposure photography, Leandro visually penetrates unseen light in regular conditions. Leandro dissects movement of light and forms in his work, often resulting in unique striking visuals, again elements that the unaide eye cannot see... some of Leandro's works are inspired by Harold Edgerton's MIT studies 1926-31. Leandro's inspiration is to reveal to the viewer things they cannot see in real time, or to view theatrical compositions in nature that are impossible unless a single frame captures the multiplied bodies or light. Gjon Mili is as well among Leandro's inspirations where the combination of science and art find a contemporary unique world. One of Leandro's true inspirations and influences is his Pierre et Marie Curie University-graduate father (as a Chemical Engineer) for his science approach, and his mother's artistic views as a writer and Montessori teacher - both of his parents inspired the combination of art and science that is inherent in his photography. Leandro's work in Art has been shown in high end BASEL festival in Miami for his mural paintings, as well as with curator Laurence Asseraf from A taste of Art Gallery in TriBeCa in New York City two times. Leandro's continuous experimentation with nature and studio-based photography keeps expanding to exploit more places and staged situations, magical or real, but always involving what he calls "visual interpretations" of his own.