Antonio Leiva is a documentary film-maker and TV producer who was forced to leave his country, Argentina, after four and a half years as a political prisoner. In the early 70's, Leiva was a film student and lecturer at the University of La Plata, where he actively participated in the Grupo Cine Peronista de La Plata. The group was an underground collective of filmakers dedicated to document and support the social upheaval. As a refugee in the U.S.A, Leiva co-founded and presided over COSPAR (Solidarity Committee for the Argentine People) in Seattle. In 1982-83, he was the Washington correspondent for the Costa Rica based press agency AIP (Agencia Independiente de Prensa). Antonio Leiva graduated in Mass Media Arts at the University of the District of Columbia, while working as a graphic design instructor for at risk youth at the Latin American Youth Center in Washington D.C. and as a free lance researcher and translator for EPICA. He served on the Board of Directors of the Latin American Youth Center, and free lanced for film projects, including the documentary Las Madres: the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.

From 1985 to 1995, Leiva was Senior Producer and Assistant Station Manager for City Cable 13 and City Cable 16 in Washington D.C. In 2004 he joined the Asociacion ProDocumentales Cine y TV, Spain. He is a co-founder and treasurer of ProyectoVOS-Voices of Survivors. Antonio Leiva's most recent film project took him to the sites of the secret detention centers where his generation was decimated in Argentina.