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LeelaMenon

  • Producer
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Leela Menon worked as a lawyer before taking her talents to the screen industry. After 13 years in commercial law — including entertainment law — she began producing commercials for Flying Fish, then became Head of Production at Matthew Metcalfe's GFC Films. At GFC she has been a producer on various documentaries, including Scott Dixon racing doco Born Racer. In 2020 she was busy on Dawn Raid, a documentary on the Auckland music label of the same name, and nuclear protest doco Mothers of the Revolution. Earlier she produced Moa-nominated short film Shout at the Ground; she also produced and acted in Fritters.   

Screenography

2024 Producer Film
2023 Producer Film
2021 Producer Film
2021 Producer Film
2021 Line Producer Film

Awards

2017 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards (The Moas)
Nominated for Best Short Film: Shout at the Ground

“In early 2008, Leela decided to focus on her passion for film and is now using her skills and experience to work as a line producer and producer.”

The GFC Films website, on Leela Menon's transition to the film industry