John Leslie Butchart

John Leslie (Les) Butchart attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he studied psychology, philosophy, anthropology, Southern literature, creative writing and filmmaking. He and his family own and operate a motion picture production company, Highway 29 Motion Pictures, in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Les and his wife Susan have three children and three grandchildren, and a Rat Terrier, Scout.

Les is the founder of MoviesAmongFriends.com, a social network for filmmakers and actors, and BooksAmongFriends.com, a social network for writers.

Author of more than twenty screenplays, his film credits include Lake of Fire, a Southern Gothic motion picture which he wrote and directed, and The Hive.

He has authored a book of short stories and poetry entitled Home Movie; a southern "white trash novel" entitled The Music We're Born Remembering; an apocalyptic thriller, Sons of Noah; an Appalachian romance entitled Elyanna, and a book on quantum physics, metaphysics and philosophy entitled The Theory of Everything & Beyond.