Leandro Amorim-Downie

Now that the sun is back out in Toronto, I thought it’d be a perfect time to share a project I directed for Marriott at the Westin Harbour Castle over the summer. This one was being cooked up for quite a while, so I’m glad to finally give it the love it deserves and shoutout everyone who worked so hard to bring it together. Thank you to the incredibly collaborative marketing team at @marriotthotels @westinharbourcastle for all the trust and creative freedom from day 1. And to @ontariocamera and @o.c.bob for the massive leg up with the incredible lensing and camera rentals. Starring @teseeyah and @haroontherealtor Dir. : @leandroishere DoP: @stickboyreturns Prod. : @jamesmadethat @wordswordswordsca AD: @celina.saber Stylist: @mrm0han HMUA: @belaavelar.mua Prod. Design: @alexanderconstantino 1st AC: @teo.weyman Key Grip: @childish_creative Gaffer: @terror.vsn Composer: @nigeldahl Editor: @eatmysocks666 Sound Design and Mix: @soundmixpost Colourist: @_patricksamaniego Colour Assist: @e_kingsbury VFX: alyssakschmidt Drone Pilot: @_ross_bennett_ Aerial Operator: @brad.nesbitt1 Key PA: @camgstewart PA: @_jaz_idc_ BTS: @brice.zhao

🚨New work for @playstation with @sawyer.chill alert🚨: here’s some BTS from Sawyer Hill’s “Eye for an Eye” music video as a tie in for @ghostof_yotei which came out today! Handsdown one of the coolest visuals in a project I’ve ever helped produce (alongside the boy @jamesmadethat ). Directed by the ever charming @sterlinglarose and shot by the great @dennisgrishnin , and made piece by piece by so many incredibly talented artists across a slew of mediums that I am so grateful to have collaborated with. To think we shot this less than two weeks ago, and now the music video is out and so is the game 🤘🏻😩 (many of these 📸 by @brice.zhao ) (will return to tag so many more talented collaborators shortly)

Watching Scorsese pitch the would-be ‘Kool-Aid’ movie to Seth Rogen in Ep. 1 of The Studio, I immediately clocked the penthouse - we had it first! It was the same one we took over for an entire weekend last summer to shoot one of the wildest projects I’ve done to date with the irreplaceable @briplewman and @jamesmadethat : ELLE Magazine’s Hollywood Rising 2024, shot entierly in the penthouse of the Hollywood Roosevelt. Thought it was about time I shared some of the incomparable @sharifhamza ’s stunning shots from the coolest project we’ve done to date, plus a little BTS 👀

Had so much fun creating this visualizer for one of my favourite bands @wombatsofficial new track “My Head Is Not My Friend” with @jamesmadethat and @mattbendo a few months back. Sometimes in this line of work you get to stand out in a snowstorm and light things on fire— tough gig, but somebody has to do it. Glad it could be us!

✨it’s written in the stars✨ Ever driven across an entire country with two of your best friends, a wild dream, a 30lb Dutch oven, and an iridescent purple Tesla? No? Just us? 🤔 We spent an entire day capturing drone footage out on the Utah salt flats on a sunny day back in November of 2022 just for fun. And none of it had seen the light of day— until today. This was shot almost exactly two years ago to the day. The nostalgic power of a camera roll is awe inspiring. Hopefully just inspiring enough to remind you to keep chasing those stars in your eyes every so often.

If you know anything about me, you know that I eat, sleep, and breathe movies. And if you know me well, you also know that I’ve always been excited by technology. About two years ago when whispers of types of AI closer to what we’ve dreamed of in sci-fi flicks started to hit my hears, I immediately started experimenting with all the tools I could get my hands on. Text to image, text to speech, text to video… they sparked in me this boundless childlike excitement for their infinite potential. They were janky, but they were exciting (and not without controversy)! What you’re watching now is one of my just-for-fun exercises in exploring the cinematic potential of those tools. Recently, I’ve been hungry for creative outlets, and after creating a pipeline using about four different tools, I channeled that energy into crafting a minute-long cinematic trailer for a movie I had written a few years ago. While I used AI-driven tools to create the building blocks of what you’re watching, I want to be clear that I’m the one who made this. Although the limitations of the tools at this stage in their development sometimes took a few tangential liberties with some of the narrative seeds I had planted in my original vision, I’m really excited by what I was able to make in just a couple of days assembling it piece by piece. Also, wouldn’t be fair to post this without acknowledging the potential misuse of artificial intelligence based tools like this as they get better and better, and that there’s a big need for regulation sooner than later. But, if they allow us to explore creative outlets and create like this… they’re worth the growing pains. All that being said, ‘Rove’ is a story that’s really close to my heart, about loss, perseverance, and ultimately sacrifice. I’m excited to share this with you— not because of HOW I made it, but because I DID. Enjoy, nerds :)

New work for MARVEL! (someone pinch me) It was a dream come true to bring this project to life with the team listed below. I even embarrassingly wore my MARVEL STUDIOS hat to our first production meeting— just so Disney knew I meant business. This project was a wild ride that grew beyond anything we could’ve imagined; with teams collaborating across multiple continents and time zones. By the end, we delivered over 150 unique assets that are currently playing in theaters nationwide, on TV, Disney+, in stores, on billboards, and inevitably all over your social feeds (sorry in advance). And the first spot to release for the campaign premiered on a national broadcast during the 2024 EuroCup final 😮‍💨⚽️ I know this is a commercial campaign and not Avengers 8: Tony Stark’s Revenge, but seeing this play before Deadpool and Wolverine fills me with a unique type of nerd-pride knowing all the hard work that we put into it. It was an honor to orchestrate this alongside giants, and we owe it all to this mighty roster of Avengers who assembled: Executive Producer - @gregcira Producer - @sahilmirch_ Post-Producer - @misquared Lead Animator - @benee.design Animation Dept. - @leejamesormerod Animation Dept. - luismejia.tv Sound Designer and Mixer - @soundmixpost Theatrical Sound Mixer- @kweenofthesound Editor - @tom.gigliotti / @alfiodfoti Storyboard and Concept Artist - @illumous L-Founders Agency Team - Michiel Reijmer L-Founders Agency Team - Brendan James Scott L-Founders Agency Team - Ibtesam Davids L-Founders Agency Team - Aidan Swain p.s. @ Kevin Feige, hit me up 😘

I flew to Kansas and all I got was this football helmet camera rig, a 2024 Corvette Stingray, and a team of incredible filmmakers to work with. 10/10 producing experience; would do again.

Currently only accepting jobs that have a view as good as the one from the rooftop of @thehollywoodroosevelt so I can get more candid pictures of me talking into a walkie that are as good as this one.

For the record, this is what they mean when they refer to a triple threat.

Very happy to finally be able to share some stills from an ad campaign I directed for Maximus Rose alongside my good friend @e_kingsbury . Commercials can be a big undertaking at times— but producing, writing and directing an entire 10 spot campaign was a whole new beast; I think we tamed that beast with fly(ing) colours 😎👉👉🟦🟨🟩🟧🟪 Shoutout to my fellow beast tamers: DOP: @stickboyreturns 👑 1st AC: @viinusaur 1st AD: @ajaltobelli Gaffer: @zedjamal Sound Recordist and Post Mix: @jonah_blaser HMUA: @haileyroselandbarnesbeauty Style Consultant: @nadzishere PA: @camgstewart Editor: @eatmysocks666 @saintseditorial Colour: @e_kingsbury @darling_vfx 🐐: @o.c.bob @ontariocamera

An action shot of me hard at work during our third shoot day of @leicathefilm . This is considered an “action shot” when you’re capturing what it’s like to be a producer. Move over, @jasonstatham . Not pictured: me running into a literal fire 7 hours prior doing the exact same job.