Friday, February 18, 2011
"Student Bodies" Competition Reality Show for mtvU
Check out this 3 part reality show we filmed this past fall in Nebraska for MTV's college network, mtvU.
Two teams of co-eds from the University of Nebraska are in for a life-changing experience as they compete in the most extreme Student Bodies Challenge yet. Watch as they begin an intense 6 week fitness boot-camp that brings one contestant to tears, and battle it out for the ultimate prize: a trip to mtvU’s Spring Break in Las Vegas.
You can also check out all of our latest projects at www.otenyc.com
Meet Over the Edge Productions - Mike Leonard
Mike Leonard
Founder / Executive Producer
Over the Edge Productions
www.otenyc.com
Mike Leonard is the owner and founder of Over the Edge Productions, a New York based television and video production company. Mike started OTE in 2005 to merge his television career and side projects into one; little did he know, he had created a monster! Working in television for the last six years has helped Mike build Over the Edge Productions into what it is today.
Mike works with various networks, but most frequently MTV, as a producer on various reality, documentary and live entertainment programs. Other credits include director, producer, editor and director of photography for various shows and networks including Discovery, National Geographic, MTV among others.
In 2004, his passion for video and its power to do truly amazing things took Mike to Vietnam to film a promo for a non-profit operating there. Since then he created a niche for himself, and a passion, for filming in third world countries and using video to bring awareness and funding to various charities operating around the world. This work has taken him all over the world and to some of the most remote parts of Africa, Asia, South and Central America.
In addition to running OTE, Mike is a firefighter and leads a very active lifestyle. His favorite hobbies include rock & ice climbing, whitewater kayaking, snowboarding and martial arts.
Friday, January 28, 2011
A Movie for Dream Theater
In October, Over the Edge Production wrapped principle photography on a feature length documentary for the legendary band Dream Theater. The movie is directed by Mike Leonard and sponsored by Roadrunner Records. In the film, we follow the bands journey after their drummer of 25 years, Mike Portnoy, leaves the band. Now, 7 of the world's best drummers compete to be part of this legendary progressive-rock group. We are currently in postproduction with the release expected in spring 2011. In addition to a nation-wide release, the film is rumored to air on television as a 3-part mini-series (official details TBA). Dream Theater fans are dying to know who the new drummer is, but it will be worth the wait. Soon fans will be able to watch history in the making through this highly anticipated movie.
Stay tuned for more updates at www.otenyc.com or right here on our blog.
Stay tuned for more updates at www.otenyc.com or right here on our blog.
Music Video for CJ Baran
This past September, Over the Edge Productions produced a music video for CJ Baran's cover of Cee Lo Green's "F*** You." The music video is directed by Mike Leonard and can be seen here or on www.otenyc.com
Over the Edge Productions has been a leading television production company in the New York City area specializing in non-fiction and reality programming and "video for music" including music videos, live performances and various music-related video content. OTE's founder, Mike Leonard, has been a producer with MTV for the last five years taking on projects that range from reality/documentary series to live performance and entertainment specials. His work as a producer, director, editor and director of photography can also be seen on networks like Discovery, National Geographic and A&E.
Over the Edge Productions has been a leading television production company in the New York City area specializing in non-fiction and reality programming and "video for music" including music videos, live performances and various music-related video content. OTE's founder, Mike Leonard, has been a producer with MTV for the last five years taking on projects that range from reality/documentary series to live performance and entertainment specials. His work as a producer, director, editor and director of photography can also be seen on networks like Discovery, National Geographic and A&E.
Tiffany Giardina's "I'm Not Crazy" Official Music Video
Check out Tiffany Giardina's music video for "I'm Not Crazy." Produced by Over the Edge Productions www.otenyc.com and directed by Mike Leonard.
"I'm Not Crazy" Official Video
"I'm Not Crazy" Official Video
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
OTE Films Music Video for Tiffany Giardina
Over the Edge Productions recently produced a music video for Tiffany Giardina's new song "I'm Not Crazy" which is currently on Radio Disney's top 30 countdown and a featured video on radiodisney.com. The music video's director, Mike Leonard brought Tiffany Giardina's story of a high school crush to life with various scenes that contrasted real life and imagination.Mike also recently directed several music videos for CJ Baran, formerly of Push Play.
A dance team of Tiffany's peers from the Pulse Performing Arts Center in Bedford Hills, NY choreographed dance routines that were added throughout the video.
Check out the official video at www.otenyc.com
A dance team of Tiffany's peers from the Pulse Performing Arts Center in Bedford Hills, NY choreographed dance routines that were added throughout the video.
Check out the official video at www.otenyc.com
Friday, January 14, 2011
OTE Returns to Africa
Who would have ever thought that coffee could change the world? Pull an entire country's economy out of disrepair, thousands of people out of poverty and teach people to forgive those who slaughtered their loved ones in cold blood?
In May, Over the Edge Productions returned to central Africa to again visit the remote coffee plantation of Cyimbili in western Rwanda. The first trip, a year and a half prior, was with the initial scouting team that visited this place to see if it was possible to restore it to working conditions. With cameras rolling, we began a story that would change thousands of lives while the people of Cymbili saw white people again for the first time in twenty-five years.
Hope for a Thousand Hills is a documentary about the snowball effect of restoring the Cymbili coffee plantation in western Rwanda; the second largest coffee plantation in the country. It's also about the impact it has on a people and economy struggling from the reconstruction and reconciliation of the 1994 genocide that slaughtered almost a million people. It's the story of a community that is about to change the face of Rwanda by something as simple as coffee, create hope for thousands of families living in poverty, and capture the personal struggles of a people learning to forgive and work alongside the people who, not long ago, tried to exterminate them.
We rolled cameras on this trip to capture a dream coming to life as the first harvest of a now working coffee plantation was being farmed. We also explored the immediate and amazing effects of this project and it's impact the surrounding community.
In May, Over the Edge Productions returned to central Africa to again visit the remote coffee plantation of Cyimbili in western Rwanda. The first trip, a year and a half prior, was with the initial scouting team that visited this place to see if it was possible to restore it to working conditions. With cameras rolling, we began a story that would change thousands of lives while the people of Cymbili saw white people again for the first time in twenty-five years.
Hope for a Thousand Hills is a documentary about the snowball effect of restoring the Cymbili coffee plantation in western Rwanda; the second largest coffee plantation in the country. It's also about the impact it has on a people and economy struggling from the reconstruction and reconciliation of the 1994 genocide that slaughtered almost a million people. It's the story of a community that is about to change the face of Rwanda by something as simple as coffee, create hope for thousands of families living in poverty, and capture the personal struggles of a people learning to forgive and work alongside the people who, not long ago, tried to exterminate them.
We rolled cameras on this trip to capture a dream coming to life as the first harvest of a now working coffee plantation was being farmed. We also explored the immediate and amazing effects of this project and it's impact the surrounding community.
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