Leonard's work with the
IMAX 3D process set him apart from most directors having gained early experience with this cutting-edge presentation medium directing
T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous in IMAX 3D. The film became the first number-one hit 3D movie to gross over $100 million worldwide (on IMAX screens alone). He created a sensation when he took his Swarm Cam-Fusion Station onto
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and, with guest
Billy Idol, implemented one of the first live web-casts ever from the
House of Blues in Los Angeles.
Creative Artists Agency and
Intel Corporation hired him to direct a state-of-the-art "interactive show" for CAA/Intel Media Lab to introduce the Hollywood community to the "future of entertainment", digitizing actor
Danny DeVito, and using live
performance animation to create the interactive animated character "Mr. Head", who guided the audience/participants through the experience. In the music video genre, Brett directed
Peter Gabriel's: "Kiss That Frog", the first all-
computer graphic (CGI) music video/
motion simulator ride film to tour the world, becoming the wildly popular themed entertainment attraction to win him a 1994
MTV Music Video Award. In 2009, Brett directed the documentary
Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed. This feature-length documentary tells the story of
Vertus Hardiman and nine other young children, attending the same elementary school in
Lyles Station, Indiana who, in 1927 were severely irradiated during a medical experiment conducted at the local county hospital. The experiment was misrepresented as a newly developed cure for the scalp fungus known as
ringworm. In reality the ringworm fungus was merely the lure used to gain access to innocent children whose unsuspecting parents blindly signed permission slips for the treatment. Vertus was five years old and the youngest; after 20 years of friendship with writer/producer Wilbert Smith through their church choir, Vertus tells Wilbert his story, exposing the severe physical complications caused by the experiments. This crime had severe physical complications for Vertus—namely a harshly irradiated and malformed head, with an actual hole in his skull. In 2012, Brett formed a new concept in musical cinema, called PopFictionLife. Seeing the proliferation of small
high-definition screens on smart phones, tablets, and laptops, PopfictionLife "FragFilms" are full-length feature movies with existing artists, that have multiple free "Frags" (fragments) of the movie which are watchable, shareable, and embeddable in social media, blogs, and webpages. Brett's latest film is a PopFictionLife FragFilm called
The Other Country – Starring Burlap to Cashmere. The film also stars Samantha Lockwood and ''
America's Next Top Model'' winner
Nicole Fox. In 2017, he called for a use of the term "virtual experience" instead of "virtual reality". In 2021, Leonard directed the sports drama
Triumph, starring
RJ Mitte and
Terrence Howard. == Personal life ==