Lenny Pictures is Megan Leonard, a creative producer and festival programmer based in Seattle, WA. Her projects have premiered at top-tier festivals around the world, including Sundance, SXSW and Fantasia. Her latest, Dream Creep (d. Carlos A.F. Lopez), premiered in the Midnight Shorts Program at Sundance Film Festival 2024 and was deemed “The Scariest Short on the Festival Circuit” by Indiewire.

She participated in the 2019 Sundance Creative Producing Summit and 2020 Sundance Talent Forum with the feature adaptation of her award-winning short film, Mixtape Marauders (d. Peter Edlund). The short received Short of the Week’s 2019 Comedy of the Year Award, was nominated for Vimeo’s 2018 Comedy of the Year, and was a 2019 Webby Honoree. In 2021 she produced Occupational Hazard (d. Ursula Ellis), a West Virginia-set body horror, for Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween Season 2, and her 2023 project Harbor Island (d. Calvin Lee Reeder) premiered at SXSW where it won a Special Jury Award.

Leonard started working for film festivals in 2010 and currently leads the New American Cinema and Shorts teams at the Seattle International Film Festival. She has also programmed for Indie Memphis and DOC NYC, served on juries at Fantastic Fest, Cleveland International Film Festival and Palm Springs ShortFest.