Richard Brick
Adjunct Professor of Film

Richard Brick received a B.A. from New York University and an M.F.A. in film from Columbia University .   Working for Peter Jennings Reporting during 2003-05, Brick was senior producer of two, two-hour specials for ABC: UFOs: Seeing is Believing and The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy. Previously, he was the Co-Producer of Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry, Celebrity and Sweet and Lowdown and of Emir Kusturica’s Arizona Dream. He produced Robert M.Young’s Caught and Joe Vasquez’ Hangin’ with the Homeboys. He was the unit production manager of Mike Nichol’s Silkwood and Robert Benton’s Places in the Heart and was the Location Manager of Milos Forman’s Ragtime.

Currently, Brick is developing, with Ira Deutchman , Barbara Ehrenreich ’s best-seller Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America . He is Executive Producer of Shadow 19, a sci-fi feature in development by Joel Silver at Warner Brothers. In 1992-94, Brick had a highly successful tenure as the first Commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting. While he was Chairman of the M.F.A. degree film program at Columbia University in 1987 and 1988, he originated the first Columbia University Student Film Festival, which celebrated its 20 anniversary in 2007. Brick is a member of the Producers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America, where he serves on the Eastern Assistant Directors/Unit Production Managers Council, 2002-08, was a Delegate to the National Conventions in 2003, 2005, 2007, and is a member of the DGA PAC Leadership Circle . He served on the board of directors of the IFP, 1985-2001, and as Chair, 1995-97. In 1985, he founded and continues as Chair of the Advisory Board of the Geri Ashur Screenwriting Award, a biennial fellowship administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts.