Leslie has produced and directed over 150 professional projects in film, television, and live theatre.
He produced and was the co-director for the comedy heist feature The Great Salish Heist, the first Indigenous heist film ever made, starring Graham Greene and Tricia Helfer which completed its Cineplex national theatrical release in 2024.  Leslie then produced the Telefilm supported and Crave TV commissioned coming of age feature Sweet Summer Pow Wow which will be released in 2025.

His credits as producer and director include the award-winning feature length documentary Gone South: How Canada Invented Hollywood which featured Howie Mandel, Neve Campbell, David Foster, and Alex Trebek; the Telus/ FNX sitcom series Ollie and Emma; doc Dust ‘n Bones for FNX/ Telus/ APTN; the documentary series The Wine Guys: Grape Escapes, filmed in Italy and Spain; two feature docs Tzouhalem and A Cedar Is Life for Super Channel and CHEK; and a CBC short doc My Pet Assassin.

His work has been featured on CBC, Bell Media, Discovery Networks, Amazon, Super Channel, Knowledge Network, FNX, Télé Quebec, Hollywood Suite, Maori TV, NITV Australia, TV 5 Monde, Bytedance China, APTN, and many other streamers and broadcasters. Prior to his work in Film/TV, Leslie was an award-winning Artistic Director of two professional theatre companies in Canada. He has his MFA in Directing from the University of Victoria, is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s Conservatory BFA Acting program, and is an alumnus of the Trans Atlantic Partners program in international co-production.