Ann Leigh

Joined April 2025

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Painting with Light: The Cinematic Vision of Leo Sfeir
From the first moment Leo Sfeir pressed record on a battered DV camcorder in their childhood bedroom, they sensed that light and shadow could sing. Today, as an award-winning cinematographer and lighting designer whose credits span indie festivals to prime-time television, Sfeir continues to compose in that luminous language—painting with beams, sculpting with silhouette, and illuminating the hidden heartbeats of every story they touch.
By Ann Leigh9 months ago in Interview
Divination in Sound: The Transformative Art of Jess McAvoy
Jess McAvoy doesn’t just make music—they conjure worlds. From Perth’s DIY stages to Brooklyn’s theatrical labs, McAvoy has spent thirty years forging an art that resists easy definition: part rock riff, part mythic fable, part confessional therapy. Their current projects—most notably the one-person rock musical The Search and the Americana-infused album American Dreaming—are not just performances or records, but living experiments in identity, transformation, and cultural critique.
By Ann Leigh9 months ago in Interview
Beyond the Brief: Marcus Chan’s Cinematic Reckoning
As dawn’s pale light filtered through the blinds of a modest Hong Kong apartment in early 2005, Marcus Chan sat hunched over a borrowed laptop, editing the final frames of a short film shot on a shoestring. By day he drafted contracts in a high-rise law office; by night he stitched together “Six Fragments of the Endless Journey Called Life.” What began as a necessary creative outlet became a compass: when that film became a finalist at Hong Kong’s Independent Film and Video Awards, Chan realized that the precise strategies of litigation had collided with the boundless possibilities of cinema, and he could no longer ignore the call of the latter.
By Ann Leigh9 months ago in Interview
Waging Freedom
As the evening folded over into midnight, February 2018, Andres Borda had an awakening of spirit. It could have been the late hour that allowed for his defenses to come down and challenge him or that it was simply the right moment, but he felt a change was needed. One year into a degree in medicine, Andres found the childlike wonder that often accompanies dreams had been set aside for more traditional pursuits and a path that was securely well worn. While honest and respectable, that choice came with the surrendering of his true north, and eventually a loss of joy.
By Ann Leigh9 months ago in Interview