Leonard Cortana (France/Guadeloupe) is the Inclusion Program and Strategic Partnerships Manager at EURODOC. He is a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies, specializing in the transnational circulation of social justice films, with a particular focus on the memory of assassinated activists. He also teaches Film Studies and leads Diversity & Inclusion workshops at institutions such as New York University, Emerson College, and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Leonard holds a BA in Cinema and Aesthetics from Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He has contributed to social impact campaigns for documentaries such as Murder in Paris (South Africa) and Sementes: Black Women in Power (Brazil). He was a recipient of the United Nations Fellowship for People of African Descent, and served as a consultant for the Anti-Racial Discrimination Section of the United Nations in both Geneva and Peru.

He has also worked as a trainer for European Commission Youth Program projects and has designed storytelling and theatre-based methodologies for social inclusion. In 2019, he became a Research Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.

As part of his scholarship and curatorial work, Leonard has organized post-screening discussions and supported advocacy campaigns for impact-driven films around the world. Most recently, he led a Doc Insights session at the 2024 Cannes Docs Edition, titled Post-Screening Q&As: Leading Ethical Interactions to Boost Impactful Conversations.