Founder and co-owner of Trash Video, Australia's largest alternative rental store, writer and film critic, TV presenter (Schlock Treatment every Friday at 8.30pm on Brisbane's Channel 31), festival programmer, MC, trivia quizmaster, agnostic evangelist, Masters student at Griffith University, lover, fighter, former masked wrestler "El Stumpo", obsessive archivist touring the country regularly with his compilations of fringe cinema, and occasional guerrilla filmmaker.

He recently followed up his first feature, the $700 fake 60s exploitation mini-epic Lesbo-A-Go-Go (2003), with Bluebirds Of Peace And Destruction (2006), a netherworldly reimagining of the infamous 1989 Brisbane vampire murder.

Leavold's latest feature is a guerrilla documentary shot in Manila - The Search For Weng Weng (2007) is the ultimate history of Filipino B-films, and chronicles Leavold's obsessive quest to find the truth behind the midget James Bond of the Philippines.

presented at Vol.06