After delivering a series of short stories to his 3rd grade teacher about a cannibalistic chocolate chip cookie family, it became clear to Norman Lesperance that story telling was what he wanted to spend his life doing. But what stories would he tell? He liked them all. Even then, he did not, would not, be labeled or pigeon holed. And what would his medium be for his storytelling…Novels, photographs, paintings? The answer to the second question came to him later that year, shortly after turning eight. It was then that Lesperance would be forced to swallow the bitter pill of artistic injustice for the first time when he watched Gandhi defeat ET, a film that made him cry, for best picture. It was a subconscious recognition of cinema’s impact on such a broad audience that made him realize he wanted to tell his stories on the big screen. And so, his pursuit of this career began.

While studying at Brooks Institute of Photography, Lesperance wrote, produced and directed his first feature film, Future Murder. Shot on a shoestring, the project went on to sell all over the world. With that experience behind him, Lesperance took to the festival circuit with a Vietnam/twilight zone style short called 3AM Eternal, eventually striking a distribution deal with Doug Liman’s production company, Hypnotic.

After delving into commercials and music videos, Lesperance found his way back into the narrative world with Pact, an intensely jarring story of revenge. The film, which marks a notable evolution in Lesperance’s directorial style, has been praised as being a “rare gem in short filmmaking” and garnered awards for Best Editing and Best Actor. Lesperance then optioned his thriller, Screams and Shadows, to the Oscar award winning Crash ’s Executive Producers Jan Korbelin and Marina Grasic. After spending a year developing a project for Mandalay Entertainment., Lesperance broke into the world of family films when he won two best screenplay awards for his spec, Catastrophe, which was purchased by Alpine Pictures. Lesperance was recently hired to write the screenplay and the graphic novel for the psychological thriller Acheron. He has continued to hone his craft in multiple genres having recently launched his web series GI: Declassified, a parody of the 1980s cartoon and the summer blockbuster. Also, soon to be released is a short film version of his highly anticipated and long awaited black comedy, Killing Tarantino.