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As a television content provider, Brian has produced, directed, written and photographed documentary films, newsmagazines, specials, and reality series for many outlets including TLC, Court TV, PBS, FOX, Lifetime, Food Network, and the independent market.
Among his many assignments over the last 15 years, Brian has covered the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the Crown Heights Riots in New York City, UFO abductees in upstate New York, the war in the former Yugoslavia, the war in Rwanda and corresponding cholera epidemic in the former Zaire, the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, Vitamin A distribution in Nepal and Ghana, earthquakes in Taiwan and El Salvador, gang violence in Denver, tornadoes in Texas, and the plight of Sudanese refugees in Chad.
FILM:
In addition to his TV work, Brian has written several screenplays. His coming-of-age story, Fine, was a prize winner at the Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition in 2000 and led to his first work-for-hire re-writing assignments.
Brian is currently scheduled to direct his first feature-length film, Burying Billy Quinn, from his own screenplay. Principal photography is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2008.
Brian has recently partnered with artist Adam Forman to transform another screenplay, Tom Zombie, into a full-length graphic novel.
Brian is also currently working on an untitled screenwriting project with producer Rob Stone (Citizen X, The Negotiator, Gone in Sixty Seconds).
Brian is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Ithaca College's Park School of Communications and has guest lectured at Columbia University’s School of Journalism and at the Centers for Independent Journalism in Hungary and Romania.
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