Steven spent many years working in film animation as a publicist, programmer, promoter, and producer. He produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 Warner Bros hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Steven has worked with some of the greatest names in Animation including Chuck Jones, Richard Williams, and Brad Bird, as well as famed producers Richard Zanuck and Ivan Reitman. Steven voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

But writing was Steven’s first love and in 1993 he decided to go back to it, privately printing The Old Curmudgeon’s Book of Questions as an announcement of his intentions. He mailed copies to friends, professional colleagues, and people he greatly admired, receiving grateful acknowledgements and encouragements from filmmakers Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, and Frank Rich of the New Times, among others.

Steven’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003, gathering welcomed praise from Ray Bradbury, one of Steven’s heroes. His play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. In 2008 Steven received a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his Young Adult novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas (Thomas Nelson), for which he had written the original treatment.

Steven can be E-mailed at: www.stevenpaulleiva.com
 

Peter has edited live action, animation, documentaries, and even a video game.

Passionate about film in all its forms, Peter has enjoyed editing several animated features, including Shark Tale and Jungle Book 2, Simba’s Pride and most recently, Secrets of the Furious Five, the 2D & CG animation companion DVD to Kung Fu Panda. He also had a hand in editing in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

And in the past Peter has worked with such directors as Robert Zemeckis, Jerry & David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, Michael Caton-Jones, and Joe Johnston, on such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, Ruthless People, This Boy’s Life, and all three of the Back to the Future films.

Peter received his BA in Film and Television from U.C.L.A. and did additional studies in film at UC Berkeley. He started working in Hollywood as Film Traffic Manager at the legendary Los Angeles International Film Festival (FILMEX), where he met The Old Curmudgeon: Steven Paul Leiva, and began making the contacts that led him into film work, a path he has greatly enjoyed and continuingly finds challenging and fascinating.

Peter can be E-mailed at: tooneditor@sbcglobal.net
 

Bennie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 18, 1946, and took up the tenor sax at age 12. He worked after-hours clubs around Tennessee during his high school and college years and graduated from University of Tennessee in 1968. Three years later he moved to New York where he played concerts and club gigs with such as Barry Harris, Cecil McBee, Buddy Rich, Monty Alexander, and Glen Moore.

In 1979, Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning first release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues". The critical acclaim was overwhelming, hailing Bennie Wallace as the "New Saxophone Giant", the youngest of a lineage including Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins.

New York Arts Journal called Bennie Wallace "the most important reed player since Dolphy's and Coleman's startling work in the early sixties", and continued: "Everything lacking in Sonny Rollins' present work is abundantly manifest in the brilliant debut album of the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace. Wallace's voice strikes one immediately as so individual and secure because he has assimilated the salient traits of every conceivable past and present jazz style, transmuting them according to his own strong, unmistakable personality rather than becoming overwhelmed by the weight of tradition (as other explorers of the past have often suffered)."

Following that auspicious debut, Bennie Wallace took over the role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist. He made recordings as a leader with such diverse jazz greats as Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Harold Ashby, Oliver Lake, Ray Anderson, Yosuke Yamashita, Jimmy Knepper, and many others. Several years ago, he began to accentuate his Southern roots, which led to collaborations with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and other blues and gospel artists.

Recently Bennie has become the Artistic Director of BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ, a charitable organization established to present world-class jazz musicians through concerts, workshops and master classes. Dedicated to producing concerts in intimate acoustical settings, BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ presents jazz to young audiences and introduces it to communities that no longer have the opportunity to experience this uniquely American art form.

You can learn more about Bennie at: www.benniewallace.com and BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ at www.backcountryjazz.org.
 

Steven spent many years working in film animation as a publicist, programmer, promoter, and producer. He produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 Warner Bros hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Steven has worked with some of the greatest names in Animation including Chuck Jones, Richard Williams, and Brad Bird, as well as famed producers Richard Zanuck and Ivan Reitman. Steven voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

But writing was Steven’s first love and in 1993 he decided to go back to it, privately printing The Old Curmudgeon’s Book of Questions as an announcement of his intentions. He mailed copies to friends, professional colleagues, and people he greatly admired, receiving grateful acknowledgements and encouragements from filmmakers Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, and Frank Rich of the New Times, among others.

Steven’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003, gathering welcomed praise from Ray Bradbury, one of Steven’s heroes. His play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. In 2008 Steven received a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his Young Adult novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas (Thomas Nelson), for which he had written the original treatment.

Steven can be E-mailed at: www.stevenpaulleiva.com
 

Peter has edited live action, animation, documentaries, and even a video game.

Passionate about film in all its forms, Peter has enjoyed editing several animated features, including Shark Tale and Jungle Book 2, Simba’s Pride and most recently, Secrets of the Furious Five, the 2D & CG animation companion DVD to Kung Fu Panda. He also had a hand in editing in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

And in the past Peter has worked with such directors as Robert Zemeckis, Jerry & David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, Michael Caton-Jones, and Joe Johnston, on such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, Ruthless People, This Boy’s Life, and all three of the Back to the Future films.

Peter received his BA in Film and Television from U.C.L.A. and did additional studies in film at UC Berkeley. He started working in Hollywood as Film Traffic Manager at the legendary Los Angeles International Film Festival (FILMEX), where he met The Old Curmudgeon: Steven Paul Leiva, and began making the contacts that led him into film work, a path he has greatly enjoyed and continuingly finds challenging and fascinating.

Peter can be E-mailed at: tooneditor@sbcglobal.net
 

Bennie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 18, 1946, and took up the tenor sax at age 12. He worked after-hours clubs around Tennessee during his high school and college years and graduated from University of Tennessee in 1968. Three years later he moved to New York where he played concerts and club gigs with such as Barry Harris, Cecil McBee, Buddy Rich, Monty Alexander, and Glen Moore.

In 1979, Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning first release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues". The critical acclaim was overwhelming, hailing Bennie Wallace as the "New Saxophone Giant", the youngest of a lineage including Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins.

New York Arts Journal called Bennie Wallace "the most important reed player since Dolphy's and Coleman's startling work in the early sixties", and continued: "Everything lacking in Sonny Rollins' present work is abundantly manifest in the brilliant debut album of the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace. Wallace's voice strikes one immediately as so individual and secure because he has assimilated the salient traits of every conceivable past and present jazz style, transmuting them according to his own strong, unmistakable personality rather than becoming overwhelmed by the weight of tradition (as other explorers of the past have often suffered)."

Following that auspicious debut, Bennie Wallace took over the role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist. He made recordings as a leader with such diverse jazz greats as Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Harold Ashby, Oliver Lake, Ray Anderson, Yosuke Yamashita, Jimmy Knepper, and many others. Several years ago, he began to accentuate his Southern roots, which led to collaborations with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and other blues and gospel artists.

Recently Bennie has become the Artistic Director of BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ, a charitable organization established to present world-class jazz musicians through concerts, workshops and master classes. Dedicated to producing concerts in intimate acoustical settings, BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ presents jazz to young audiences and introduces it to communities that no longer have the opportunity to experience this uniquely American art form.

You can learn more about Bennie at: www.benniewallace.com and BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ at www.backcountryjazz.org.
 

Steven spent many years working in film animation as a publicist, programmer, promoter, and producer. He produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 Warner Bros hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Steven has worked with some of the greatest names in Animation including Chuck Jones, Richard Williams, and Brad Bird, as well as famed producers Richard Zanuck and Ivan Reitman. Steven voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

But writing was Steven’s first love and in 1993 he decided to go back to it, privately printing The Old Curmudgeon’s Book of Questions as an announcement of his intentions. He mailed copies to friends, professional colleagues, and people he greatly admired, receiving grateful acknowledgements and encouragements from filmmakers Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, and Frank Rich of the New Times, among others.

Steven’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003, gathering welcomed praise from Ray Bradbury, one of Steven’s heroes. His play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. In 2008 Steven received a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his Young Adult novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas (Thomas Nelson), for which he had written the original treatment.

Steven can be E-mailed at: www.stevenpaulleiva.com
 

Peter has edited live action, animation, documentaries, and even a video game.

Passionate about film in all its forms, Peter has enjoyed editing several animated features, including Shark Tale and Jungle Book 2, Simba’s Pride and most recently, Secrets of the Furious Five, the 2D & CG animation companion DVD to Kung Fu Panda. He also had a hand in editing in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

And in the past Peter has worked with such directors as Robert Zemeckis, Jerry & David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, Michael Caton-Jones, and Joe Johnston, on such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, Ruthless People, This Boy’s Life, and all three of the Back to the Future films.

Peter received his BA in Film and Television from U.C.L.A. and did additional studies in film at UC Berkeley. He started working in Hollywood as Film Traffic Manager at the legendary Los Angeles International Film Festival (FILMEX), where he met The Old Curmudgeon: Steven Paul Leiva, and began making the contacts that led him into film work, a path he has greatly enjoyed and continuingly finds challenging and fascinating.

Peter can be E-mailed at: tooneditor@sbcglobal.net
 

Bennie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 18, 1946, and took up the tenor sax at age 12. He worked after-hours clubs around Tennessee during his high school and college years and graduated from University of Tennessee in 1968. Three years later he moved to New York where he played concerts and club gigs with such as Barry Harris, Cecil McBee, Buddy Rich, Monty Alexander, and Glen Moore.

In 1979, Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning first release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues". The critical acclaim was overwhelming, hailing Bennie Wallace as the "New Saxophone Giant", the youngest of a lineage including Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins.

New York Arts Journal called Bennie Wallace "the most important reed player since Dolphy's and Coleman's startling work in the early sixties", and continued: "Everything lacking in Sonny Rollins' present work is abundantly manifest in the brilliant debut album of the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace. Wallace's voice strikes one immediately as so individual and secure because he has assimilated the salient traits of every conceivable past and present jazz style, transmuting them according to his own strong, unmistakable personality rather than becoming overwhelmed by the weight of tradition (as other explorers of the past have often suffered)."

Following that auspicious debut, Bennie Wallace took over the role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist. He made recordings as a leader with such diverse jazz greats as Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Harold Ashby, Oliver Lake, Ray Anderson, Yosuke Yamashita, Jimmy Knepper, and many others. Several years ago, he began to accentuate his Southern roots, which led to collaborations with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and other blues and gospel artists.

Recently Bennie has become the Artistic Director of BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ, a charitable organization established to present world-class jazz musicians through concerts, workshops and master classes. Dedicated to producing concerts in intimate acoustical settings, BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ presents jazz to young audiences and introduces it to communities that no longer have the opportunity to experience this uniquely American art form.

You can learn more about Bennie at: www.benniewallace.com and BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ at www.backcountryjazz.org.
 

Steven spent many years working in film animation as a publicist, programmer, promoter, and producer. He produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 Warner Bros hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Steven has worked with some of the greatest names in Animation including Chuck Jones, Richard Williams, and Brad Bird, as well as famed producers Richard Zanuck and Ivan Reitman. Steven voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

But writing was Steven’s first love and in 1993 he decided to go back to it, privately printing The Old Curmudgeon’s Book of Questions as an announcement of his intentions. He mailed copies to friends, professional colleagues, and people he greatly admired, receiving grateful acknowledgements and encouragements from filmmakers Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, and Frank Rich of the New Times, among others.

Steven’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003, gathering welcomed praise from Ray Bradbury, one of Steven’s heroes. His play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. In 2008 Steven received a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his Young Adult novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas (Thomas Nelson), for which he had written the original treatment.

Steven can be E-mailed at: www.stevenpaulleiva.com
 

Peter has edited live action, animation, documentaries, and even a video game.

Passionate about film in all its forms, Peter has enjoyed editing several animated features, including Shark Tale and Jungle Book 2, Simba’s Pride and most recently, Secrets of the Furious Five, the 2D & CG animation companion DVD to Kung Fu Panda. He also had a hand in editing in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

And in the past Peter has worked with such directors as Robert Zemeckis, Jerry & David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, Michael Caton-Jones, and Joe Johnston, on such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, Ruthless People, This Boy’s Life, and all three of the Back to the Future films.

Peter received his BA in Film and Television from U.C.L.A. and did additional studies in film at UC Berkeley. He started working in Hollywood as Film Traffic Manager at the legendary Los Angeles International Film Festival (FILMEX), where he met The Old Curmudgeon: Steven Paul Leiva, and began making the contacts that led him into film work, a path he has greatly enjoyed and continuingly finds challenging and fascinating.

Peter can be E-mailed at: tooneditor@sbcglobal.net
 

Bennie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 18, 1946, and took up the tenor sax at age 12. He worked after-hours clubs around Tennessee during his high school and college years and graduated from University of Tennessee in 1968. Three years later he moved to New York where he played concerts and club gigs with such as Barry Harris, Cecil McBee, Buddy Rich, Monty Alexander, and Glen Moore.

In 1979, Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning first release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues". The critical acclaim was overwhelming, hailing Bennie Wallace as the "New Saxophone Giant", the youngest of a lineage including Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins.

New York Arts Journal called Bennie Wallace "the most important reed player since Dolphy's and Coleman's startling work in the early sixties", and continued: "Everything lacking in Sonny Rollins' present work is abundantly manifest in the brilliant debut album of the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace. Wallace's voice strikes one immediately as so individual and secure because he has assimilated the salient traits of every conceivable past and present jazz style, transmuting them according to his own strong, unmistakable personality rather than becoming overwhelmed by the weight of tradition (as other explorers of the past have often suffered)."

Following that auspicious debut, Bennie Wallace took over the role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist. He made recordings as a leader with such diverse jazz greats as Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Harold Ashby, Oliver Lake, Ray Anderson, Yosuke Yamashita, Jimmy Knepper, and many others. Several years ago, he began to accentuate his Southern roots, which led to collaborations with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and other blues and gospel artists.

Recently Bennie has become the Artistic Director of BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ, a charitable organization established to present world-class jazz musicians through concerts, workshops and master classes. Dedicated to producing concerts in intimate acoustical settings, BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ presents jazz to young audiences and introduces it to communities that no longer have the opportunity to experience this uniquely American art form.

You can learn more about Bennie at: www.benniewallace.com and BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ at www.backcountryjazz.org.
 

Steven spent many years working in film animation as a publicist, programmer, promoter, and producer. He produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 Warner Bros hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Steven has worked with some of the greatest names in Animation including Chuck Jones, Richard Williams, and Brad Bird, as well as famed producers Richard Zanuck and Ivan Reitman. Steven voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

But writing was Steven’s first love and in 1993 he decided to go back to it, privately printing The Old Curmudgeon’s Book of Questions as an announcement of his intentions. He mailed copies to friends, professional colleagues, and people he greatly admired, receiving grateful acknowledgements and encouragements from filmmakers Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, and Frank Rich of the New Times, among others.

Steven’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003, gathering welcomed praise from Ray Bradbury, one of Steven’s heroes. His play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. In 2008 Steven received a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his Young Adult novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas (Thomas Nelson), for which he had written the original treatment.

Steven can be E-mailed at: www.stevenpaulleiva.com
 

Peter has edited live action, animation, documentaries, and even a video game.

Passionate about film in all its forms, Peter has enjoyed editing several animated features, including Shark Tale and Jungle Book 2, Simba’s Pride and most recently, Secrets of the Furious Five, the 2D & CG animation companion DVD to Kung Fu Panda. He also had a hand in editing in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

And in the past Peter has worked with such directors as Robert Zemeckis, Jerry & David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, Michael Caton-Jones, and Joe Johnston, on such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, Ruthless People, This Boy’s Life, and all three of the Back to the Future films.

Peter received his BA in Film and Television from U.C.L.A. and did additional studies in film at UC Berkeley. He started working in Hollywood as Film Traffic Manager at the legendary Los Angeles International Film Festival (FILMEX), where he met The Old Curmudgeon: Steven Paul Leiva, and began making the contacts that led him into film work, a path he has greatly enjoyed and continuingly finds challenging and fascinating.

Peter can be E-mailed at: tooneditor@sbcglobal.net
 

Bennie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 18, 1946, and took up the tenor sax at age 12. He worked after-hours clubs around Tennessee during his high school and college years and graduated from University of Tennessee in 1968. Three years later he moved to New York where he played concerts and club gigs with such as Barry Harris, Cecil McBee, Buddy Rich, Monty Alexander, and Glen Moore.

In 1979, Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning first release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues". The critical acclaim was overwhelming, hailing Bennie Wallace as the "New Saxophone Giant", the youngest of a lineage including Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins.

New York Arts Journal called Bennie Wallace "the most important reed player since Dolphy's and Coleman's startling work in the early sixties", and continued: "Everything lacking in Sonny Rollins' present work is abundantly manifest in the brilliant debut album of the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace. Wallace's voice strikes one immediately as so individual and secure because he has assimilated the salient traits of every conceivable past and present jazz style, transmuting them according to his own strong, unmistakable personality rather than becoming overwhelmed by the weight of tradition (as other explorers of the past have often suffered)."

Following that auspicious debut, Bennie Wallace took over the role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist. He made recordings as a leader with such diverse jazz greats as Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Harold Ashby, Oliver Lake, Ray Anderson, Yosuke Yamashita, Jimmy Knepper, and many others. Several years ago, he began to accentuate his Southern roots, which led to collaborations with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and other blues and gospel artists.

Recently Bennie has become the Artistic Director of BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ, a charitable organization established to present world-class jazz musicians through concerts, workshops and master classes. Dedicated to producing concerts in intimate acoustical settings, BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ presents jazz to young audiences and introduces it to communities that no longer have the opportunity to experience this uniquely American art form.

You can learn more about Bennie at: www.benniewallace.com and BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ at www.backcountryjazz.org.
 

Steven spent many years working in film animation as a publicist, programmer, promoter, and producer. He produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 Warner Bros hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Steven has worked with some of the greatest names in Animation including Chuck Jones, Richard Williams, and Brad Bird, as well as famed producers Richard Zanuck and Ivan Reitman. Steven voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

But writing was Steven’s first love and in 1993 he decided to go back to it, privately printing The Old Curmudgeon’s Book of Questions as an announcement of his intentions. He mailed copies to friends, professional colleagues, and people he greatly admired, receiving grateful acknowledgements and encouragements from filmmakers Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, and Frank Rich of the New Times, among others.

Steven’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003, gathering welcomed praise from Ray Bradbury, one of Steven’s heroes. His play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. In 2008 Steven received a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his Young Adult novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas (Thomas Nelson), for which he had written the original treatment.

Steven can be E-mailed at: www.stevenpaulleiva.com
 

Peter has edited live action, animation, documentaries, and even a video game.

Passionate about film in all its forms, Peter has enjoyed editing several animated features, including Shark Tale and Jungle Book 2, Simba’s Pride and most recently, Secrets of the Furious Five, the 2D & CG animation companion DVD to Kung Fu Panda. He also had a hand in editing in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

And in the past Peter has worked with such directors as Robert Zemeckis, Jerry & David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, Michael Caton-Jones, and Joe Johnston, on such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, Ruthless People, This Boy’s Life, and all three of the Back to the Future films.

Peter received his BA in Film and Television from U.C.L.A. and did additional studies in film at UC Berkeley. He started working in Hollywood as Film Traffic Manager at the legendary Los Angeles International Film Festival (FILMEX), where he met The Old Curmudgeon: Steven Paul Leiva, and began making the contacts that led him into film work, a path he has greatly enjoyed and continuingly finds challenging and fascinating.

Peter can be E-mailed at: tooneditor@sbcglobal.net
 

Bennie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 18, 1946, and took up the tenor sax at age 12. He worked after-hours clubs around Tennessee during his high school and college years and graduated from University of Tennessee in 1968. Three years later he moved to New York where he played concerts and club gigs with such as Barry Harris, Cecil McBee, Buddy Rich, Monty Alexander, and Glen Moore.

In 1979, Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning first release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues". The critical acclaim was overwhelming, hailing Bennie Wallace as the "New Saxophone Giant", the youngest of a lineage including Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins.

New York Arts Journal called Bennie Wallace "the most important reed player since Dolphy's and Coleman's startling work in the early sixties", and continued: "Everything lacking in Sonny Rollins' present work is abundantly manifest in the brilliant debut album of the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace. Wallace's voice strikes one immediately as so individual and secure because he has assimilated the salient traits of every conceivable past and present jazz style, transmuting them according to his own strong, unmistakable personality rather than becoming overwhelmed by the weight of tradition (as other explorers of the past have often suffered)."

Following that auspicious debut, Bennie Wallace took over the role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist. He made recordings as a leader with such diverse jazz greats as Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Harold Ashby, Oliver Lake, Ray Anderson, Yosuke Yamashita, Jimmy Knepper, and many others. Several years ago, he began to accentuate his Southern roots, which led to collaborations with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and other blues and gospel artists.

Recently Bennie has become the Artistic Director of BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ, a charitable organization established to present world-class jazz musicians through concerts, workshops and master classes. Dedicated to producing concerts in intimate acoustical settings, BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ presents jazz to young audiences and introduces it to communities that no longer have the opportunity to experience this uniquely American art form.

You can learn more about Bennie at: www.benniewallace.com and BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ at www.backcountryjazz.org.
 

Steven spent many years working in film animation as a publicist, programmer, promoter, and producer. He produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 Warner Bros hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Steven has worked with some of the greatest names in Animation including Chuck Jones, Richard Williams, and Brad Bird, as well as famed producers Richard Zanuck and Ivan Reitman. Steven voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

But writing was Steven’s first love and in 1993 he decided to go back to it, privately printing The Old Curmudgeon’s Book of Questions as an announcement of his intentions. He mailed copies to friends, professional colleagues, and people he greatly admired, receiving grateful acknowledgements and encouragements from filmmakers Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, and Frank Rich of the New Times, among others.

Steven’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003, gathering welcomed praise from Ray Bradbury, one of Steven’s heroes. His play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. In 2008 Steven received a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his Young Adult novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas (Thomas Nelson), for which he had written the original treatment.

Steven can be E-mailed at: www.stevenpaulleiva.com
 

Peter has edited live action, animation, documentaries, and even a video game.

Passionate about film in all its forms, Peter has enjoyed editing several animated features, including Shark Tale and Jungle Book 2, Simba’s Pride and most recently, Secrets of the Furious Five, the 2D & CG animation companion DVD to Kung Fu Panda. He also had a hand in editing in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

And in the past Peter has worked with such directors as Robert Zemeckis, Jerry & David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, Michael Caton-Jones, and Joe Johnston, on such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, Ruthless People, This Boy’s Life, and all three of the Back to the Future films.

Peter received his BA in Film and Television from U.C.L.A. and did additional studies in film at UC Berkeley. He started working in Hollywood as Film Traffic Manager at the legendary Los Angeles International Film Festival (FILMEX), where he met The Old Curmudgeon: Steven Paul Leiva, and began making the contacts that led him into film work, a path he has greatly enjoyed and continuingly finds challenging and fascinating.

Peter can be E-mailed at: tooneditor@sbcglobal.net
 

Bennie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 18, 1946, and took up the tenor sax at age 12. He worked after-hours clubs around Tennessee during his high school and college years and graduated from University of Tennessee in 1968. Three years later he moved to New York where he played concerts and club gigs with such as Barry Harris, Cecil McBee, Buddy Rich, Monty Alexander, and Glen Moore.

In 1979, Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning first release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues". The critical acclaim was overwhelming, hailing Bennie Wallace as the "New Saxophone Giant", the youngest of a lineage including Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins.

New York Arts Journal called Bennie Wallace "the most important reed player since Dolphy's and Coleman's startling work in the early sixties", and continued: "Everything lacking in Sonny Rollins' present work is abundantly manifest in the brilliant debut album of the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace. Wallace's voice strikes one immediately as so individual and secure because he has assimilated the salient traits of every conceivable past and present jazz style, transmuting them according to his own strong, unmistakable personality rather than becoming overwhelmed by the weight of tradition (as other explorers of the past have often suffered)."

Following that auspicious debut, Bennie Wallace took over the role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist. He made recordings as a leader with such diverse jazz greats as Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Harold Ashby, Oliver Lake, Ray Anderson, Yosuke Yamashita, Jimmy Knepper, and many others. Several years ago, he began to accentuate his Southern roots, which led to collaborations with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and other blues and gospel artists.

Recently Bennie has become the Artistic Director of BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ, a charitable organization established to present world-class jazz musicians through concerts, workshops and master classes. Dedicated to producing concerts in intimate acoustical settings, BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ presents jazz to young audiences and introduces it to communities that no longer have the opportunity to experience this uniquely American art form.

You can learn more about Bennie at: www.benniewallace.com and BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ at www.backcountryjazz.org.
 

Steven spent many years working in film animation as a publicist, programmer, promoter, and producer. He produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 Warner Bros hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Steven has worked with some of the greatest names in Animation including Chuck Jones, Richard Williams, and Brad Bird, as well as famed producers Richard Zanuck and Ivan Reitman. Steven voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

But writing was Steven’s first love and in 1993 he decided to go back to it, privately printing The Old Curmudgeon’s Book of Questions as an announcement of his intentions. He mailed copies to friends, professional colleagues, and people he greatly admired, receiving grateful acknowledgements and encouragements from filmmakers Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, and Frank Rich of the New Times, among others.

Steven’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003, gathering welcomed praise from Ray Bradbury, one of Steven’s heroes. His play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. In 2008 Steven received a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his Young Adult novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas (Thomas Nelson), for which he had written the original treatment.

Steven can be E-mailed at: www.stevenpaulleiva.com
 

Peter has edited live action, animation, documentaries, and even a video game.

Passionate about film in all its forms, Peter has enjoyed editing several animated features, including Shark Tale and Jungle Book 2, Simba’s Pride and most recently, Secrets of the Furious Five, the 2D & CG animation companion DVD to Kung Fu Panda. He also had a hand in editing in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

And in the past Peter has worked with such directors as Robert Zemeckis, Jerry & David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, Michael Caton-Jones, and Joe Johnston, on such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, Ruthless People, This Boy’s Life, and all three of the Back to the Future films.

Peter received his BA in Film and Television from U.C.L.A. and did additional studies in film at UC Berkeley. He started working in Hollywood as Film Traffic Manager at the legendary Los Angeles International Film Festival (FILMEX), where he met The Old Curmudgeon: Steven Paul Leiva, and began making the contacts that led him into film work, a path he has greatly enjoyed and continuingly finds challenging and fascinating.

Peter can be E-mailed at: tooneditor@sbcglobal.net
 

Bennie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 18, 1946, and took up the tenor sax at age 12. He worked after-hours clubs around Tennessee during his high school and college years and graduated from University of Tennessee in 1968. Three years later he moved to New York where he played concerts and club gigs with such as Barry Harris, Cecil McBee, Buddy Rich, Monty Alexander, and Glen Moore.

In 1979, Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning first release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues". The critical acclaim was overwhelming, hailing Bennie Wallace as the "New Saxophone Giant", the youngest of a lineage including Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins.

New York Arts Journal called Bennie Wallace "the most important reed player since Dolphy's and Coleman's startling work in the early sixties", and continued: "Everything lacking in Sonny Rollins' present work is abundantly manifest in the brilliant debut album of the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace. Wallace's voice strikes one immediately as so individual and secure because he has assimilated the salient traits of every conceivable past and present jazz style, transmuting them according to his own strong, unmistakable personality rather than becoming overwhelmed by the weight of tradition (as other explorers of the past have often suffered)."

Following that auspicious debut, Bennie Wallace took over the role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist. He made recordings as a leader with such diverse jazz greats as Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Harold Ashby, Oliver Lake, Ray Anderson, Yosuke Yamashita, Jimmy Knepper, and many others. Several years ago, he began to accentuate his Southern roots, which led to collaborations with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and other blues and gospel artists.

Recently Bennie has become the Artistic Director of BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ, a charitable organization established to present world-class jazz musicians through concerts, workshops and master classes. Dedicated to producing concerts in intimate acoustical settings, BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ presents jazz to young audiences and introduces it to communities that no longer have the opportunity to experience this uniquely American art form.

You can learn more about Bennie at: www.benniewallace.com and BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ at www.backcountryjazz.org.
 

Steven spent many years working in film animation as a publicist, programmer, promoter, and producer. He produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 Warner Bros hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Steven has worked with some of the greatest names in Animation including Chuck Jones, Richard Williams, and Brad Bird, as well as famed producers Richard Zanuck and Ivan Reitman. Steven voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

But writing was Steven’s first love and in 1993 he decided to go back to it, privately printing The Old Curmudgeon’s Book of Questions as an announcement of his intentions. He mailed copies to friends, professional colleagues, and people he greatly admired, receiving grateful acknowledgements and encouragements from filmmakers Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, and Frank Rich of the New Times, among others.

Steven’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003, gathering welcomed praise from Ray Bradbury, one of Steven’s heroes. His play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. In 2008 Steven received a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his Young Adult novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas (Thomas Nelson), for which he had written the original treatment.

Steven can be E-mailed at: www.stevenpaulleiva.com
 

Peter has edited live action, animation, documentaries, and even a video game.

Passionate about film in all its forms, Peter has enjoyed editing several animated features, including Shark Tale and Jungle Book 2, Simba’s Pride and most recently, Secrets of the Furious Five, the 2D & CG animation companion DVD to Kung Fu Panda. He also had a hand in editing in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

And in the past Peter has worked with such directors as Robert Zemeckis, Jerry & David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, Michael Caton-Jones, and Joe Johnston, on such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, Ruthless People, This Boy’s Life, and all three of the Back to the Future films.

Peter received his BA in Film and Television from U.C.L.A. and did additional studies in film at UC Berkeley. He started working in Hollywood as Film Traffic Manager at the legendary Los Angeles International Film Festival (FILMEX), where he met The Old Curmudgeon: Steven Paul Leiva, and began making the contacts that led him into film work, a path he has greatly enjoyed and continuingly finds challenging and fascinating.

Peter can be E-mailed at: tooneditor@sbcglobal.net
 

Bennie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 18, 1946, and took up the tenor sax at age 12. He worked after-hours clubs around Tennessee during his high school and college years and graduated from University of Tennessee in 1968. Three years later he moved to New York where he played concerts and club gigs with such as Barry Harris, Cecil McBee, Buddy Rich, Monty Alexander, and Glen Moore.

In 1979, Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning first release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues". The critical acclaim was overwhelming, hailing Bennie Wallace as the "New Saxophone Giant", the youngest of a lineage including Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins.

New York Arts Journal called Bennie Wallace "the most important reed player since Dolphy's and Coleman's startling work in the early sixties", and continued: "Everything lacking in Sonny Rollins' present work is abundantly manifest in the brilliant debut album of the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace. Wallace's voice strikes one immediately as so individual and secure because he has assimilated the salient traits of every conceivable past and present jazz style, transmuting them according to his own strong, unmistakable personality rather than becoming overwhelmed by the weight of tradition (as other explorers of the past have often suffered)."

Following that auspicious debut, Bennie Wallace took over the role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist. He made recordings as a leader with such diverse jazz greats as Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Harold Ashby, Oliver Lake, Ray Anderson, Yosuke Yamashita, Jimmy Knepper, and many others. Several years ago, he began to accentuate his Southern roots, which led to collaborations with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and other blues and gospel artists.

Recently Bennie has become the Artistic Director of BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ, a charitable organization established to present world-class jazz musicians through concerts, workshops and master classes. Dedicated to producing concerts in intimate acoustical settings, BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ presents jazz to young audiences and introduces it to communities that no longer have the opportunity to experience this uniquely American art form.

You can learn more about Bennie at: www.benniewallace.com and BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ at www.backcountryjazz.org.
 

Steven spent many years working in film animation as a publicist, programmer, promoter, and producer. He produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 Warner Bros hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Steven has worked with some of the greatest names in Animation including Chuck Jones, Richard Williams, and Brad Bird, as well as famed producers Richard Zanuck and Ivan Reitman. Steven voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

But writing was Steven’s first love and in 1993 he decided to go back to it, privately printing The Old Curmudgeon’s Book of Questions as an announcement of his intentions. He mailed copies to friends, professional colleagues, and people he greatly admired, receiving grateful acknowledgements and encouragements from filmmakers Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, and Frank Rich of the New Times, among others.

Steven’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003, gathering welcomed praise from Ray Bradbury, one of Steven’s heroes. His play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. In 2008 Steven received a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his Young Adult novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas (Thomas Nelson), for which he had written the original treatment.

Steven can be E-mailed at: www.stevenpaulleiva.com
 

Peter has edited live action, animation, documentaries, and even a video game.

Passionate about film in all its forms, Peter has enjoyed editing several animated features, including Shark Tale and Jungle Book 2, Simba’s Pride and most recently, Secrets of the Furious Five, the 2D & CG animation companion DVD to Kung Fu Panda. He also had a hand in editing in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

And in the past Peter has worked with such directors as Robert Zemeckis, Jerry & David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, Michael Caton-Jones, and Joe Johnston, on such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, Ruthless People, This Boy’s Life, and all three of the Back to the Future films.

Peter received his BA in Film and Television from U.C.L.A. and did additional studies in film at UC Berkeley. He started working in Hollywood as Film Traffic Manager at the legendary Los Angeles International Film Festival (FILMEX), where he met The Old Curmudgeon: Steven Paul Leiva, and began making the contacts that led him into film work, a path he has greatly enjoyed and continuingly finds challenging and fascinating.

Peter can be E-mailed at: tooneditor@sbcglobal.net
 

Bennie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 18, 1946, and took up the tenor sax at age 12. He worked after-hours clubs around Tennessee during his high school and college years and graduated from University of Tennessee in 1968. Three years later he moved to New York where he played concerts and club gigs with such as Barry Harris, Cecil McBee, Buddy Rich, Monty Alexander, and Glen Moore.

In 1979, Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning first release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues". The critical acclaim was overwhelming, hailing Bennie Wallace as the "New Saxophone Giant", the youngest of a lineage including Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins.

New York Arts Journal called Bennie Wallace "the most important reed player since Dolphy's and Coleman's startling work in the early sixties", and continued: "Everything lacking in Sonny Rollins' present work is abundantly manifest in the brilliant debut album of the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace. Wallace's voice strikes one immediately as so individual and secure because he has assimilated the salient traits of every conceivable past and present jazz style, transmuting them according to his own strong, unmistakable personality rather than becoming overwhelmed by the weight of tradition (as other explorers of the past have often suffered)."

Following that auspicious debut, Bennie Wallace took over the role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist. He made recordings as a leader with such diverse jazz greats as Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Harold Ashby, Oliver Lake, Ray Anderson, Yosuke Yamashita, Jimmy Knepper, and many others. Several years ago, he began to accentuate his Southern roots, which led to collaborations with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and other blues and gospel artists.

Recently Bennie has become the Artistic Director of BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ, a charitable organization established to present world-class jazz musicians through concerts, workshops and master classes. Dedicated to producing concerts in intimate acoustical settings, BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ presents jazz to young audiences and introduces it to communities that no longer have the opportunity to experience this uniquely American art form.

You can learn more about Bennie at: www.benniewallace.com and BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ at www.backcountryjazz.org.
 

Steven spent many years working in film animation as a publicist, programmer, promoter, and producer. He produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 Warner Bros hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Steven has worked with some of the greatest names in Animation including Chuck Jones, Richard Williams, and Brad Bird, as well as famed producers Richard Zanuck and Ivan Reitman. Steven voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

But writing was Steven’s first love and in 1993 he decided to go back to it, privately printing The Old Curmudgeon’s Book of Questions as an announcement of his intentions. He mailed copies to friends, professional colleagues, and people he greatly admired, receiving grateful acknowledgements and encouragements from filmmakers Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, and Frank Rich of the New Times, among others.

Steven’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003, gathering welcomed praise from Ray Bradbury, one of Steven’s heroes. His play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. In 2008 Steven received a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his Young Adult novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas (Thomas Nelson), for which he had written the original treatment.

Steven can be E-mailed at: www.stevenpaulleiva.com
 

Peter has edited live action, animation, documentaries, and even a video game.

Passionate about film in all its forms, Peter has enjoyed editing several animated features, including Shark Tale and Jungle Book 2, Simba’s Pride and most recently, Secrets of the Furious Five, the 2D & CG animation companion DVD to Kung Fu Panda. He also had a hand in editing in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

And in the past Peter has worked with such directors as Robert Zemeckis, Jerry & David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, Michael Caton-Jones, and Joe Johnston, on such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, Ruthless People, This Boy’s Life, and all three of the Back to the Future films.

Peter received his BA in Film and Television from U.C.L.A. and did additional studies in film at UC Berkeley. He started working in Hollywood as Film Traffic Manager at the legendary Los Angeles International Film Festival (FILMEX), where he met The Old Curmudgeon: Steven Paul Leiva, and began making the contacts that led him into film work, a path he has greatly enjoyed and continuingly finds challenging and fascinating.

Peter can be E-mailed at: tooneditor@sbcglobal.net
 

Bennie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 18, 1946, and took up the tenor sax at age 12. He worked after-hours clubs around Tennessee during his high school and college years and graduated from University of Tennessee in 1968. Three years later he moved to New York where he played concerts and club gigs with such as Barry Harris, Cecil McBee, Buddy Rich, Monty Alexander, and Glen Moore.

In 1979, Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning first release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues". The critical acclaim was overwhelming, hailing Bennie Wallace as the "New Saxophone Giant", the youngest of a lineage including Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins.

New York Arts Journal called Bennie Wallace "the most important reed player since Dolphy's and Coleman's startling work in the early sixties", and continued: "Everything lacking in Sonny Rollins' present work is abundantly manifest in the brilliant debut album of the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace. Wallace's voice strikes one immediately as so individual and secure because he has assimilated the salient traits of every conceivable past and present jazz style, transmuting them according to his own strong, unmistakable personality rather than becoming overwhelmed by the weight of tradition (as other explorers of the past have often suffered)."

Following that auspicious debut, Bennie Wallace took over the role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist. He made recordings as a leader with such diverse jazz greats as Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Harold Ashby, Oliver Lake, Ray Anderson, Yosuke Yamashita, Jimmy Knepper, and many others. Several years ago, he began to accentuate his Southern roots, which led to collaborations with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and other blues and gospel artists.

Recently Bennie has become the Artistic Director of BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ, a charitable organization established to present world-class jazz musicians through concerts, workshops and master classes. Dedicated to producing concerts in intimate acoustical settings, BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ presents jazz to young audiences and introduces it to communities that no longer have the opportunity to experience this uniquely American art form.

You can learn more about Bennie at: www.benniewallace.com and BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ at www.backcountryjazz.org.
 

Steven spent many years working in film animation as a publicist, programmer, promoter, and producer. He produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 Warner Bros hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Steven has worked with some of the greatest names in Animation including Chuck Jones, Richard Williams, and Brad Bird, as well as famed producers Richard Zanuck and Ivan Reitman. Steven voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

But writing was Steven’s first love and in 1993 he decided to go back to it, privately printing The Old Curmudgeon’s Book of Questions as an announcement of his intentions. He mailed copies to friends, professional colleagues, and people he greatly admired, receiving grateful acknowledgements and encouragements from filmmakers Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, and Frank Rich of the New Times, among others.

Steven’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003, gathering welcomed praise from Ray Bradbury, one of Steven’s heroes. His play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. In 2008 Steven received a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his Young Adult novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas (Thomas Nelson), for which he had written the original treatment.

Steven can be E-mailed at: www.stevenpaulleiva.com
 

Peter has edited live action, animation, documentaries, and even a video game.

Passionate about film in all its forms, Peter has enjoyed editing several animated features, including Shark Tale and Jungle Book 2, Simba’s Pride and most recently, Secrets of the Furious Five, the 2D & CG animation companion DVD to Kung Fu Panda. He also had a hand in editing in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

And in the past Peter has worked with such directors as Robert Zemeckis, Jerry & David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, Michael Caton-Jones, and Joe Johnston, on such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, Ruthless People, This Boy’s Life, and all three of the Back to the Future films.

Peter received his BA in Film and Television from U.C.L.A. and did additional studies in film at UC Berkeley. He started working in Hollywood as Film Traffic Manager at the legendary Los Angeles International Film Festival (FILMEX), where he met The Old Curmudgeon: Steven Paul Leiva, and began making the contacts that led him into film work, a path he has greatly enjoyed and continuingly finds challenging and fascinating.

Peter can be E-mailed at: tooneditor@sbcglobal.net
 

Bennie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 18, 1946, and took up the tenor sax at age 12. He worked after-hours clubs around Tennessee during his high school and college years and graduated from University of Tennessee in 1968. Three years later he moved to New York where he played concerts and club gigs with such as Barry Harris, Cecil McBee, Buddy Rich, Monty Alexander, and Glen Moore.

In 1979, Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning first release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues". The critical acclaim was overwhelming, hailing Bennie Wallace as the "New Saxophone Giant", the youngest of a lineage including Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins.

New York Arts Journal called Bennie Wallace "the most important reed player since Dolphy's and Coleman's startling work in the early sixties", and continued: "Everything lacking in Sonny Rollins' present work is abundantly manifest in the brilliant debut album of the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace. Wallace's voice strikes one immediately as so individual and secure because he has assimilated the salient traits of every conceivable past and present jazz style, transmuting them according to his own strong, unmistakable personality rather than becoming overwhelmed by the weight of tradition (as other explorers of the past have often suffered)."

Following that auspicious debut, Bennie Wallace took over the role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist. He made recordings as a leader with such diverse jazz greats as Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Harold Ashby, Oliver Lake, Ray Anderson, Yosuke Yamashita, Jimmy Knepper, and many others. Several years ago, he began to accentuate his Southern roots, which led to collaborations with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and other blues and gospel artists.

Recently Bennie has become the Artistic Director of BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ, a charitable organization established to present world-class jazz musicians through concerts, workshops and master classes. Dedicated to producing concerts in intimate acoustical settings, BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ presents jazz to young audiences and introduces it to communities that no longer have the opportunity to experience this uniquely American art form.

You can learn more about Bennie at: www.benniewallace.com and BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ at www.backcountryjazz.org.
 

Steven spent many years working in film animation as a publicist, programmer, promoter, and producer. He produced the animation for Space Jam, the 1995 Warner Bros hit which brought the great Looney Tune characters back onto the big screen and paired them with Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Previously he had produced a critically praised seven-minute animated segment for the Warner Bros film, Stay Tuned, which starred the late John Ritter. Steven has worked with some of the greatest names in Animation including Chuck Jones, Richard Williams, and Brad Bird, as well as famed producers Richard Zanuck and Ivan Reitman. Steven voiced the role of Scott in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

But writing was Steven’s first love and in 1993 he decided to go back to it, privately printing The Old Curmudgeon’s Book of Questions as an announcement of his intentions. He mailed copies to friends, professional colleagues, and people he greatly admired, receiving grateful acknowledgements and encouragements from filmmakers Richard Zanuck and Richard Fleischer, and Frank Rich of the New Times, among others.

Steven’s first novel, Blood is Pretty – The First Fixxer Adventure, was published in 2003, gathering welcomed praise from Ray Bradbury, one of Steven’s heroes. His play, Made On The Moon, had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. In 2008 Steven received a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his Young Adult novelization of the film The 12 Dogs of Christmas (Thomas Nelson), for which he had written the original treatment.

Steven can be E-mailed at: www.stevenpaulleiva.com
 

Peter has edited live action, animation, documentaries, and even a video game.

Passionate about film in all its forms, Peter has enjoyed editing several animated features, including Shark Tale and Jungle Book 2, Simba’s Pride and most recently, Secrets of the Furious Five, the 2D & CG animation companion DVD to Kung Fu Panda. He also had a hand in editing in the multi-award winning animated short written and directed by Steve Moore, The Indescribable Nth, which was short-listed for the OscarTM in 2000.

And in the past Peter has worked with such directors as Robert Zemeckis, Jerry & David Zucker and Jim Abrahams, Michael Caton-Jones, and Joe Johnston, on such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, Ruthless People, This Boy’s Life, and all three of the Back to the Future films.

Peter received his BA in Film and Television from U.C.L.A. and did additional studies in film at UC Berkeley. He started working in Hollywood as Film Traffic Manager at the legendary Los Angeles International Film Festival (FILMEX), where he met The Old Curmudgeon: Steven Paul Leiva, and began making the contacts that led him into film work, a path he has greatly enjoyed and continuingly finds challenging and fascinating.

Peter can be E-mailed at: tooneditor@sbcglobal.net
 

Bennie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 18, 1946, and took up the tenor sax at age 12. He worked after-hours clubs around Tennessee during his high school and college years and graduated from University of Tennessee in 1968. Three years later he moved to New York where he played concerts and club gigs with such as Barry Harris, Cecil McBee, Buddy Rich, Monty Alexander, and Glen Moore.

In 1979, Bennie Wallace burst onto the international jazz scene with his award-winning first release, "The Fourteen Bar Blues". The critical acclaim was overwhelming, hailing Bennie Wallace as the "New Saxophone Giant", the youngest of a lineage including Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, and Sonny Rollins.

New York Arts Journal called Bennie Wallace "the most important reed player since Dolphy's and Coleman's startling work in the early sixties", and continued: "Everything lacking in Sonny Rollins' present work is abundantly manifest in the brilliant debut album of the 32-year-old tenor saxophonist Bennie Wallace. Wallace's voice strikes one immediately as so individual and secure because he has assimilated the salient traits of every conceivable past and present jazz style, transmuting them according to his own strong, unmistakable personality rather than becoming overwhelmed by the weight of tradition (as other explorers of the past have often suffered)."

Following that auspicious debut, Bennie Wallace took over the role of the forward-looking, exploratory traditionalist. He made recordings as a leader with such diverse jazz greats as Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, Harold Ashby, Oliver Lake, Ray Anderson, Yosuke Yamashita, Jimmy Knepper, and many others. Several years ago, he began to accentuate his Southern roots, which led to collaborations with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. John and other blues and gospel artists.

Recently Bennie has become the Artistic Director of BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ, a charitable organization established to present world-class jazz musicians through concerts, workshops and master classes. Dedicated to producing concerts in intimate acoustical settings, BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ presents jazz to young audiences and introduces it to communities that no longer have the opportunity to experience this uniquely American art form.

You can learn more about Bennie at: www.benniewallace.com and BACKCOUNTRY JAZZ at www.backcountryjazz.org.