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LEANNA CREEL Creel writes, directs, produces and sometimes hosts web content for clients such as Yahoo and Nokia. Currently, she hosts a series about photography called SNAP and directs a cooking show called CHEAP & EASY WITH BROOKE PETERSON. She runs her photography and cinematography company creelphoto from her loft in downtown LA. In her spare time Creel directs a nonprofit organization called Photopiece that teaches photography to teens in economically challenged neighborhoods near downtown Los Angeles. After Lions Gate purchased the film production company Creel co-founded, she took time to travel around the world and study photography. Creel wrote and directed the award winning short film OFFSIDE, which was screened and won at festivals around the world including Tokyo, Milan, Sundance and San Paolo. Roger Ebert said “Offside is an accomplished and effective film, one of the highlights of Sundance.” Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp released the film theatrically in France. Her first writing job after making the film was an assignment for Imagine Entertainment. Creel also directed the award winning short entitled PROM-troversy! which won the Planet Out Grand Prize for Best Short Film of 2005 and has screened around the world. It is playing on Logo Network, where it is the highest ranking short on their website and is being developed into a feature film. In 1997 Creel co-founded the finance and production company Ignite Entertainment, which was acquired by Lions Gate Films in 2000. In three years, the company financed and produced nine feature films for which Creel oversaw the development, production and delivery of while running the company. The features she produced or executive produced include: but I’m a Cheerleader (Lions Gate), Dancer TX, pop. 81 (Sony), Desert Blue (Samuel Goldwyn), The Suburbans (Sony), Get Over It (Miramax), Mixed Signals (HBO), Possums (Encore) and the cult hit Six String Samurai (Palm Pictures). Creel brought three features to Sundance and worked closely with emerging talent. She has also produced a number of popular short films such as Queen for a Day, one of the most watched shorts on the internet. Creel began her career as a teenager, working as a TV, film, commercial and voice over actress for 10 years. Her credits include being a series regular on Saved By the Bell (Tori Scott) and an NBC series that was created for her to star in with her identical triplet sisters called Parent Trap III. She appeared in a number of popular episodic TV shows during the 80’s and early 90’s. Creel earned both a BA in History (magna cum laude) and an MFA in Film and TV from UCLA. >back to cast