Leif Gantvoort

As a director, Leif's independent feature film "The 60 Yard Line" won Best Comedy at the Wisconsin Film Festival, the Phoenix Comicon Film Festival, and the IFS Film Festival. The film eventually went on to get a theatrical release, premiering on over 90 screens. His short films (written and directed by him): "Passed the Brush" won Best Short at Vertical Movie Film Festival and the VertiFilms Prague Film Festival; "Heavy Stuff" won Best Comedy/Horror at the South Dakota Film Festival and the Die Laughing Film Festival; "Birth is Beautiful" won him Best Editing at the Reel Comedy Festival; and "Hyte" was nominated for Best Sci-Fi Short at Shockerfest. As a production designer, he won two LA Weekly Awards, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and a Drama Critics Circle Award. As an actor, Leif has been in "The Amazing Spider-Man" (where he killed Uncle Ben) and "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2" (where he tried his best to kill Paul Blart). Other lead roles in features include "Don't Blink", "AWOL-72", and "Lunatics, Lovers and Poets" (which earned him a Best Lead Actor nomination at Method Fest Film Festival). He has guest starred on numerous TV shows, including: "Rebel", "NCIS", "S.W.A.T.," "The Crossing," "How to Get Away with Murder," "Chicago P.D.," and "Criminal Minds," to name a few. As a playwright, his stage play "The Zombie Effect" has had 3 sell-out runs in Los Angeles, and his stage play "Mark on Society" was on the short list for the Garland Awards. In his very limited free time, he skates as a banked track roller derby referee (under the name of Wild Bill Hiccup) for the L.A. Derby Dolls, where his wife (DoomsDaisy) and daughter (Chewblocka) both skate on teams. He usually refs for the national championships (Battle on the Bank) where...he also won a referee MVP award.