Richard Brick was senior producer of a two-hour HD special, Peter
Jennings Reporting- UFOs: Seeing is Believing for ABC. In 2003, he was
senior producer of another two-hour special for ABC, Peter Jennings
Reporting - The JFK 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 Assistant Unit
Production Manager/Location Manager of Milos Forman's Ragtime.
On Peter Gimbel's syndicated television feature documentary, Andrea
Doria: the Final Chapter, he was associate producer and production
manager. He served as production manager on Waris Hussein's Little
Gloria...Happy At Last, television mini-series; as production manager
of John Lowenthal's theatrical feature The Trials of Alger Hiss, which
won the Grand Prix at the 12th Annual Nyon Film Festival; and as
production manager of Michael Roemer's Pilgrim...Farewell, a dramatic
feature for PBS. Brick was the production manager of Westinghouse
Broadcasting's bicentennial television series Six American Families,
winner of a Gabriel and DuPont/Columbia Awards. On Paul Ronder's Part
of the Family, winner of the Prix George Sadoul, a feature documentary
made for PBS and released theatrically in Europe, he was production
manager. Brick produced and directed Last Stand Farmer.
Brick had a highly successful tenure as the first Commissioner of the
New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting,
1992-94. He was Chairman of the M.F.A. degree film program at Columbia
University, 1988 and 1989, where he continues as an Adjunct Professor
in the producing program. In 1987 he established the Columbia Film
Festival for the M.F.A. program, which celebrated its 25th anniversary
at Lincoln Center in 2012, at which he endowed the Richard Brick
Producing Prize at Columbia.
Brick has in active development with Ira Deutchman, Barbara
Ehrenreich's best-seller Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in
America; James Salter's stunning mountain climbing novel Solo Faces,
with Mark Obenhaus; and with Kenneth Murphy, Fire on the Beach, the
gripping 1880 true story of former slave Richard Etheridge, who is made
"Keeper" of the Pea Island Life Saving Station on the North Carolina
coast. He is Executive Producer of Shadow 19, a sci-fi feature in
development by Joel Silver at Warner Brothers.
Brick is a member of the Producers Guild of America and the Directors
Guild of America, which he's served since 2002 on the Eastern Assistant
Directors/Unit Production Managers Council, as a Delegate to the
National Conventions in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, and 2013 (elected but
unable to attend), and on the National Negotiating Committee 2010-11
and 2013-14. He served on the board of directors of the IFP, 1985-2001,
as Chairman, 1995-97. In 1985 he founded and Chairs the Advisory Board
of the Geri Ashur Screenwriting Award, a $10,000 fellowship
administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts. He was an
official Guest at Emir Kusturica's 2010 Kustendorf Film Festival and
Juror at the 2011 Kustendorf Film Festival. President of the Jury, the
2012 Targowa Street Film and Music Festival of The Leon Schiller Higher
School of Film, Television and Theatre, Lodz, Poland
Brick received an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Grant
in 1977; the Vermont Council on the Arts' Grant-in-Aid in 1974 and the
Vermont Council on the Humanities and Public Issues' Regrant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities in 1974. His awards include a
2004 Radio-Television News Directors Edward R. Murrow Award and the
British Broadcasting Press Guild Television Awards: Best Single
Documentary, 2003, for The Kennedy Assassination; Best Feature
nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards for Hangin' with the
Homeboys in 1991; the 1993 Motion Picture Bookers Club Award; the
Directors Guild of America Best Picture nomination as UPM for Places in
the Heart in 1984; the John Grierson Award for Social Documentary and
the Blue Ribbon from the 1976 American Film Festival, and the 1975 Gold
Ducat of the Mannheim Internationale Filmwoche, all for Last Stand
Farmer. He lives in New York City and northern Vermont and is married
to Sara Bershtel, Publisher of Metropolitan Books at Henry Holt and
Company.
