Leo Severino
Leo Severino is a 20-year Hollywood veteran and a founding partner of Metanoia Films.
His producing and screenwriting debut was the acclaimed feature film Bella (winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival, garnering more than ten times its production budget in revenues). His subsequent films include Little Boy (winner of the Latin American Cancine Award for best picture), the wildly successful Sound of Freedom ($14 million production budget, nearing $300 million in revenues, making it one of the most profitable films in independent film history) and the soon-to-be-released Cabrini, a $34million period piece to be distributed globally in theaters March of 2024.
Prior to producing, Severino spent three years as Director of Business Affairs for the Fox Networks Group (a division of 20th Century Fox), in charge of their National Programming and a year as an associate at the Producer’s Guild of America, where he first experienced his passion for filmmaking. Previously, Leo was an associate at one of the largest law firms in the world, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, working in Latin American corporate transactions.
He received his Juris Doctorate degree, with honors, from the University of Southern California Law School and degrees in Philosophy from the same institution as an undergraduate.
