Name Brian Price | ||
Brian Price is an American screenwriter and screenwriting teacher as well as an independent film and commercial director. He sold his first screenplay, "The Many Lives of Bobby Ivers" to Universal Pictures (Hal Lieberman, producer) while still a student at UCLA. His film "Bottomfeeders" 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.
Brian received his BA from Yale University in 1988 and his MFA in Screenwriting from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1998. He currently teaches screenwriting in the Master's Program and Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA, as well as the BFA and MFA programs at the Brooks Institute in Ventura.