A Bunch of Short Guys presents Industry Insights: Brenda Chapman
sponsored by Women in Film Dallas
Saturday, August 6th
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Angelika Plano 7205 Bishop Rd, Plano, TX 75024
About the Presentation
Just Another Story… is Chapman’s approach to creating a story. She will discuss and show visual examples of the basics of storytelling. There are many formulas of how to tell a great story, but really, you have to find your own comfort zone when you put the bones of your story together. Chapman contends that hers is just one of many ways to create a story – a tool or another point of view to help you in your quest for your own inspired story.
About the Speaker
Brenda Chapman started her career as a story artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation where she worked on films such as The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, the Oscar nominated Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Fantasia 2000. Chapman was the story supervisor on The Lion King, for which she won the Annie Award.
Chapman then helped launch DreamWorks Animation Studios, where she co-directed the 1998 release of the Oscar winning Prince of Egypt. Chapman was the first woman to direct an animated feature for a major Hollywood studio, for which she won the Movieguide Epiphany and Teddy Awards.
She joined Pixar Animation Studios in September 2003 as a senior story artist on Cars. Chapman then created, wrote and directed Brave for which she won an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film.
Other awards include the Novus Creative Catalyst Award, the 2013 Burbank International Film Festival’s Feature Animation Honoree Award and the San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival Achievement Award.
Chapman has helped to develop and consult on films for several studios over many years which include not only Disney, DreamWorks and Pixar, but also Universal, Sony and Lucasfilm.
Currently, Chapman is writing, directing and producing several projects in different stages of development. She has been engaged to write and direct a Chinese financed/American made feature-animated film – working title Truth and is attached to direct Come Away, a live action film written by Marissa Goodhill.
Chapman is partnering with her husband, Kevin Lima (A Goofy Movie, Tarzan, Enchanted), in writing an adaptation of the stage show 13: The Musical for CBS Films. She and Lima are also collaborating on an original screenplay – working title Touch – all while starting up a production company to produce animated, live-action, as well as hybrid films – with the aim of producing quality family entertainment.
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