Andrew Leavold / Biography

Andrew Leavold has owned and managed Trash Video, the largest cult video rental store in Brisbane (and Australia), since 1995. He is also a published author, researcher, festival curator, TV presenter, and filmmaker.Lesbo-A-Go-Go (2003), Leavold's no-budget exercise in recreating a Sixties Doris Wishman-style exploitation feature, was followed by Bluebirds Of Peace And Destruction (2006), a hyper-real reconstruction of a famous Brisbane vampire slaying. Leavold's latest feature is the guerrilla documentary shot in Manila; The Search For Weng Weng (2007) is the ultimate history of Filipino B-films, and chronicles Leavold's quest to find the truth behind the midget James Bond of the Philippines.