BIOGRAPHY

Leigh graduated from Warwick University with a B.A (First Class) Honours Degree in Film and Literature. At university he devised and directed the world premiere stage adaptation of Steven Soderbergh’s film sex, lies, and videotape.

Leigh is currently a freelance scriptwriter represented by Alan Brodie Representation and writes regularly about film for several broadsheet, magazine and online outlets including The Times, The Guardian, Empire, The London Paper, The Big Issue, Channel 4 and BBCi. He was formerly the editor of Raindance Film magazine and is currently Deputy Editor of Film & Festivals online magazine.

Read some examples of Leigh's film journalism.

Leigh has appeared on both radio (BBC Five Live and recently as a regular film critic for BBC Asian Network) and television (ITV News, Channel 5, Press TV's 'CinePolitics' show) as a film pundit and as a TV Presenter on pilot TV film programmes.

To see Leigh's interview showreel, click here.

He has also run TV Presenter Courses for TNTV Productions and DV filmmaking workshops and courses for adults and kids across London.

Leigh is an experienced DV director and editor and a former television Assistant Producer and Director for companies including Granada and the BBC.

Since 2003 Singer-Leisinger has specialised in short films about the arts.