Brian David Price
Brian Price is an American screenwriter, film & commercial director. He also teaches film and screenwriting at several institutions. He is currently the Co-Director of the Graduate Screenwriting and Film Program at Hollins University and teaches screenwriting at UCLA and Yale University.
Career[]
He sold his first screenplay, "The Many Lives of Bobby Ivers" to Universal Pictures (Hal Lieberman, producer) while still a student at UCLA. Price received his BA from Yale University in 1988 and his MFA in Screenwriting from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1998.
His film "Bottomfeeders"[1] won the Audience Award and Frank Capra Award at the DC Independent Film Festival, the Indie Spirit Award at the Planet Indie Film Festival in Toronto, and was a featured selection at the Philadelphia, Palm Beach, and Sarasota Film Festivals. His screenplay "Whale Farts" won the 10th annual Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition.[2]
Teaching[]
He taught screenwriting at the Brooks Institute in Ventura, where he developed and oversaw the MFA Screenwriting program, as well as in the MA Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. Price is a frequent Guest Lecturer at Yale University. His book Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting was released by Focal Press in January 2018.
References[]
- ^ Bottomfeeders at IMDb
- ^ "scriptapalooza screenwriting competition". Scriptapalooza.com. Archived from the original on 2012-08-18. Retrieved 2012-12-16.
External links[]
- American male screenwriters
- Living people
- Brooks Institute faculty
- Screenwriters from California
- Screenwriting instructors
- Writers of books about writing fiction