Leith 'Holtzy' Holtzman has been an extreme sports photographer, film maker and journalist for more than 30 years. His work has been published all around the world in respected magazines such as Tracks, Surfing World, Freerider MX, Waves, Australian Surfing Life, Carve, Riptide and many more.

Holtzy's film credits include three surf films, a bodyboard film and the first ever Australian FMX film 'Homegrown Maniacs' which was a huge success and spawned three more HGM films plus the stand alone FMX road trip documentary 'The Warpt Big Gap Challenge'.

Holtzy also wrote, produced, directed, filmed, edited and occasionally starred in his own successful TV series 'Homegrown Maniacs TV' which aired for a number of years on Foxtel.

He currently lives off grid in a tent in the wilds of Western Australia while he writes his next literary masterpiece.