Leslie Norville is an Emmy Award-winning producer and accomplished showrunner with a passion for bringing nuanced, character-driven stories to life that amplify the voices and experiences of people of color. Her work has been showcased at prestigious festivals worldwide, including TIFF, SXSW, Tribeca, Hot Docs, Doc NYC, and IDFA, and aired on major networks such as Disney+, PBS, CBC, Sundance Channel, and VH1.

Her recent projects include the Oscar-shortlisted, multi-award-winning The First Wave (Neon/National Geographic); the eight-part CBC series Black Life: Untold Stories, which won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing; and True North, directed by Michèle Stephenson (Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project), an archival film about the Black Liberation movement in 1960s Montreal. True North had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and won Best Editing, Best Cinematography, and Best Sound Design at the inaugural Hindsight Film Festival.  Other notable credits include the feature documentary A Ballerina’s Tale about Misty Copeland, the first African American principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre; Brooklyn Boheme; Disdain the Mundane (part of ESPN’s Emmy Award®-winning 30 for 30 shorts series); Finding the Funk (co-executive produced by GRAMMY Award®-winner Questlove); and Any Given Day, which premiered at Hot Docs 2021.

Norville is an alumna of the Sundance Documentary Creative Producing Fellowship. In 2023, Playback Magazine named her Showrunner of the Year, in 2024, she received the Dear Producer Award and in 2025 she was a Gotham/Cannes Producers Network Fellow.

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