An award-winning musician, writer and filmmaker, DeLeon got his start producing for Bad Boy Records and writing reviews for URB magazine before a chance meeting with famed writer Jamaica Kincaid spurred him to turn his interest in writing into long-form storytelling. A recent graduate of NYU's graduate film school and winner of a 2011 Spike Lee Production Grant, DeLeon is currently in post-production for his thesis film, Rez, which centers around the eviction of an Ojibwe Indian teen living on the Leech Lake reservation, and is developing Chocolate City, an American folktale about three generations of a black family that can fly. He sincerely thanks the Shadow and Act community for supporting his film.