Leopold St-Pierre
Though Leo St-Pierre has over twenty-five years’ writing experience in Canada, US and UK network television, in the past decade he has focused primarily on films and international co-productions, and in recent years has been involved in projects with, among others, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber (Platinum), Sir George Martin (Platinum and Under Milk Wood), Eric Roberts, Gabriel Byrne, John Hurt, Charlotte Rampling, Joanna Lumley, Richard Chamberlain, Patrick Bergin, Dean Cain and Steven Baldwin.
He has written 16 feature screenplays, including Fashionably Late, After Midnight, Black Cat Crossing, Songs of the Fallen Angels (for VH1), Platinum (co-produced with Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group), The Modern Man (also director; IFD), Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (Equinoxe/ITC), and The Mystery of the Red-Headed Woman (for Warner Bros. and France 3), and Two Piranhas. He has won Telefilm Canada Screenwriting grants four times (The Magic Diary, Montreal City Blues, City of Saints, Romeo & Romeo), and has won an equal number of Astral Media Harold Greenberg Fund Screenwriting grants (Forget-Me-Not, Dangerous Games, Sin City, and Prisoners of Paradise). Among his other feature screenplays are: The Wrong Blonde, Swansong, China Dolls, Tommy Wolf, Mutts, Gates of Hell, Leo and Lena, Midnight Rose, and House of Lies. His awards include Best Feature at the Chicago Student Film Festival (The Modern Man) and four Emmy nominations.
He has also, in the past 5 years, worked extensively as a 'script doctor' with polishing jobs for HBO, Promark, Lion’s Gate and Showtime (No Alibi, X-Change, etc).
He has written two Dolph Lundgren ‘action’ feature films (Diamond Dogs and Tumbling Dice), filming (Fall 2006, Summer 2007) in Mongolia and Shanghai.
Leo has just completed writing the screenplay for a major theatrical feature film, The Gospel of Judas, based on the recently-discovered 3rd century manuscript (published by National Geographic). He is currently writing One Love, a theatrical feature for Universal.
He has lectured on Screenwriting at University of Vermont, the University of Toronto, and the QWF. His play, Two Piranhas. is in rehearsal, and his first novel, a 'noir' thriller entitled "The Girl with the Powder-Blue Eyes" is to be published by Jade Dragon Press in Fall 2007.