Creative production studio Flavor has promoted Brian McCauley to creative director.
A well-known designer, animator and creative director, McCauley is a graduate of the Art Institute of Houston and the Illinois Institute of Art. In 2005 he landed as motion graphics artist for the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks. That led him to the role of director and creative lead for Bridges Media, where he spent nearly seven years creating original content for film, television and the web for many top global brands. McCauley then began freelancing as a creative director and 2D/3D specialist for several major studios, including Sol Design FX (which relaunched as Flavor in late 2013), which he joined full-time in 2013 as senior motion designer.
Flavor is part of the Cutters Stduios family of companines which includes Another Country, Cutters, Dictionary Films and Picnic Media.
Marshall Brickman speaks to reporters during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
The Oscar-winning screenwriter Marshall Brickman, whose wide-ranging career spanned some of Woody Allen 's best films, the Broadway musical "Jersey Boys" and a number of Johnny Carson's most beloved sketches, has died. He was 85.
Brickman died Friday in Manhattan, his daughter Sophie Brickman told The New York Times. No cause of death was cited.
Brickman was best known for his extensive collaboration with Allen, beginning with the 1973 film "Sleeper." Together, they co-wrote "Annie Hall" (1977), "Manhattan" (1979) and "Manhattan Murder Mystery" (1993). The loosely structured script for "Annie Hall," in particular, has been hailed as one of the wittiest comedies. It won Brickman and Allen an Oscar for best original screenplay.
In his acceptance speech (Allen skipped the ceremony), Brickman referenced one of the film's many oft-quoted lines, saying: "I've been out here a week, and I still have guilt when I make a right turn on a red light."
"If the film is worth anything," Brickman told Vanity Fair in 2017, "it gives a very particular specific image of what it was like to be alive in New York at that time in that particular social-economic stratum."
Brickman and Allen had met in the early 1960s, when Allen was breaking through as a stand-up comedian. Brickman was brought on to write jokes for him. At the time, he had been playing banjo for the folk group the Tarriers. In one of the many twists of Brickman's career, it was an album he and his college roommate Eric Weissberg recorded that later made the soundtrack to 1972's "Deliverance," including "Dueling Banjos."
Brickman, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was the son of Jewish socialists Abram (who fled Poland during WWII) and Pauline (Wolin) Brickman, who was from New York.... Read More
