Brian Hecker

Brian received his bachelor's degree in film at Northwestern University and his MFA in directing at the American Film Institute where he was awarded Director of the Year. His thesis film "Family Attraction", starring the late Chris Penn and Martin Sheen, earned over a dozen national and international film festival awards and was selected by Apple to be one of their first ten shorts on iTunes to launch their short film category. Upon graduation, Brian developed screenplays for Miramax, MGM, and Universal before writing and directing his first indie feature, "Bart Got a Room", starring William H Macy, Cheryl Hines, and Alia Shawkat. He and his writing partner Craig Sherman were selected by Grant Heslov and George Clooney to write The Smothers Brothers biopic for Sony Pictures, and most recently, their Blacklist script about Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, the hippy-genius who, in 1972, began the video game revolution, was reacquired from Paramount Pictures by independent producers JD Seraphine and Benjamin Gerry. DiCaprio remains attached as producer with Brian at the helm to direct.