Christopher Leggett is an American producer of films, television, documentaries, music videos, and commercials. In 2013, Leggett joined as a partner at Delirio Films, a boutique film and commercial production company with a focus on prestige documentary, both features and series. Leggett began his producing career at NBC / Universal Sports. From there, he segued into independent production.
Early life
Leggett was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts and attended Wellesley High School, where he was a swimmer. He was recruited to swim at American University in Washington, DC, where he majored in Film & Media Arts. Upon graduation, Chris lived in DC working as an editor for Eldeman, World Championship Sports Network, and HGTV. He relocated to Los Angeles in 2009.
Television
Leggett's television background comes from his role as a producer at NBC Universal Sports where he covered both the 2010 and 2012 Olympic games. He also led the creation and production of Against the Tide, a docu-series featuring three Olympic athletes including Ed Moses on their quest for the London games. Leggett was later executive producer on a six-part documentary series, Hunting ISIS, which premiered Spring 2018 on the History Channel and Viceland.
Film
In 2012 he broke into the indie world with the Webby Award-winning music video for Icelandic band Sigur Rós directed by Alma Har'el and starring Shia LaBeouf. Later that year he produced a television pilot starring Elliott Gould, and a short film featuring Elijah Wood and Alia Shawkat, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Leggett then partnered with Academy Award winners John Battsek and David Frankel, Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel and Emmy Award winner Josh Greenbaum for the 2013 SXSW Audience Award-winning documentary THE SHORT GAME, which followed the greatest 7-and-8 year-old golfers as they competed in the World Championships of Junior Golf. This film was picked up by Netflix as their first original title. In 2015, Leggett partnered with executive producer and Academy Award winner John Legend to produce CAN YOU DIG THIS which won Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 LA Film Fest. The film is a portrait of four "gangster gardeners" pioneering the urban gardening movement in notoriously dangerous South Los Angeles. 2016 marked the return of the early collaboration by Leggett, Harel. and Labeouf for Harel’s sophomore feature film LOVETRUE, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the jury award for Best Documentary at Karlovy Vary later that year. In 2017, Delirio Films partnered with Hulu to launch its Original Feature Documentaries with Too Funny To Fail and Becoming Bond, which won the SXSW Audience award. Since then, Leggett's first scripted film, Honey Boy, written by and starring Shia LaBeouf premiered alongside his documentaries Mike Wallace Is Here and Ask Dr. Ruth at Sundance Film Festival in 2019.
