John D. Leonard

Born John Daniel Leonard in Massillon, Ohio. He dropped out of school (later achieving his GED) to work full time in a chrome plating plant as he pursues a life in rock-n-roll as a drummer. Playing with local bands for many years up to the present day never connecting with a band with the same path ideas as him. Having two children, Brenna E. Leonard and Weston G. Leonard with former wife Brenda, Leonard then begins to rethink his goals. Realizing that he has been watching movies from a behind-the-camera perspective since he was a small child and loving the idea of creating films himself, Leonard opened a video store with goals of making films on the side. That began to happen when he befriended Kipp Speicher, a frequent video customer. They became film partners and created One Eye View Productions. With Speicher providing a digital camera, they experimented on and created numerous shorts and videos starting with "Dead Bodies"(2002) written and directed by Leonard. Then "Stranger Than"