Director Dana Brown, whose credits include the noted surfing documentary Step Into Liquid, has come aboard the roster of Caviar for commercials. This marks the first career spot representation for Brown whose latest long-form credit is Highwater, a feature-length documentary chronicling the 2005 Triple Crown of Surfing on Hawaii’s North Shore. Highwater is slated for release this fall.
Brown’s brings a distinctive filmmaking lineage to Caviar, which maintains offices in Venice, Brussels and Amsterdam. His father is Bruce Brown who helmed the classic surf film, Endless Summer. Dana Brown has collaborated with his father on several projects, including Summer‘s sequels, Endless Summer II and Endless Summer Revisited. Dana Brown directed the latter.
Dana Brown grew up in Dana Point, Calif., and first started making films with his friends at the age of eight. Throughout his teens, he assisted his father on film shoots and later collaborated with him in a more official capacity as a writer, producer and editor on Endless Summer II and Endless Summer Revisited. Dana Brown eventually ventured out on his own with over 50 sports-related productions including the Emmy-nominated series, Surfer’s Journal, and feature-length documentary, Dust to Glory, focused on the Baja 1000 (multi-vehicle race).
Brown’s success with Liquid and Dust to Glory has firmly established him in the non-fiction adventure film genre. “I have always been interested in people and their various obsessions. People with obsessions that might kill them, be it surfing or wartime journalism, are the most fascinating of all,” Brown observed.
Disney Pledges $15 million In L.A. Fire Aid As More Celebs Learn They’ve Lost Their Homes
The Pacific Palisades wildfires torched the home of "This Is Us" star Milo Ventimiglia, perhaps most poignantly destroying the father-to-be's newly installed crib.
CBS cameras caught the actor walking through his charred house for the first time, standing in what was once his kitchen and looking at a neighborhood in ruin. "Your heart just breaks."
He and his pregnant wife, Jarah Mariano, evacuated Tuesday with their dog and they watched on security cameras as the flames ripped through the house, destroying everything, including a new crib.
"There's a kind of shock moment where you're going, 'Oh, this is real. This is happening.' What good is it to continue watching?' And then at a certain point we just turned it off, like 'What good is it to continue watching?'"
Firefighters sought to make gains Friday during a respite in the heavy winds that fanned the flames as numerous groups pledged aid to help victims and rebuild, including a $15 million donation pledge from the Walt Disney Co.
More stars learn their homes are gone
While seeing the remains of his home, Ventimiglia was struck by a connection to his "This Is Us" character, Jack Pearson, who died after inhaling smoke in a house fire. "It's not lost on me life imitating art."
Mandy Moore, who played Ventimiglia's wife on "This Is Us," nearly lost her home in the Eaton fire, which scorched large areas of the Altadena neighborhood. She said Thursday that part of her house is standing but is unlivable, and her husband lost his music studio and all his instruments.
Mel Gibson's home is "completely gone," his publicist Alan Nierob confirmed Friday. The Oscar winner revealed the loss of his home earlier Friday while appearing on Joe Rogan's... Read More