Brian David 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 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 taught screenwriting at the Brooks Institute in Ventura, where he developed and oversaw the MFA Screenwriting program. He is currently an Assistant Professor, teaching screenwriting And directing, at the ROCHESTER Institute of Technology and teaches online for the Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA, as well as in the MA Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University, and is a frequent Guest Lecturer at Yale University.
His book Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting was released by Focal Press in January 2018.
