Ben Leiser

Executive Producer

About Me

Ben Leiser has been behind the scenes producing media in commercials & films in Los Angeles and around the globe, for almost three decades.

Raised in a small rural Illinois town outside Chicago, Ben was from the singular Jewish family in the area who started the local mercantile store (later furniture) in the 1800’s that still operates today. As a young adult he went to work at the Mercantile Exchange in Chicago before heading to California where he eventually met Manny Marquez and his future career in producing. This launched a history of projects spanning advertising, television, photography, and film.

In 2014 Ben and Manny released their first documentary Psychopath, about a group of unlikely misfits building a haunted attraction in rural Oklahoma. It was during the filming of that documentary that Ben also formed a lasting relationship with Anthony, years before Anthony’s first deployment. Ben rejoins Manny and the team to tell a much different story