Career
Robert Latham Brown has worked in production capacity on more than 40 feature films, including the very small (the Ray Liotta/Ron Perlman film Local Color , [5] along with drama The Anarchist Cookbook ) [6] and also the very large ( Blues Brothers , [7] Starship Troopers , [8] and the Kevin Bacon film Hollow Man ). [9]
Robert Latham Brown spent most of his early career at Universal Studios. After his work with John Carpenter on The Thing , [10] [11] the invitation of Lucasfilm producer/vice president Howard Kazanjian sent Brown to begin work on Return of the Jedi . [12] [13] Afterward Brown's career took a freelance aspect that allowed him to work on an eclectic list of films with some of the top individuals in the business, including Michael Douglas, [14] Harrison Ford, [15] and Samuel L. Jackson. [16]
Author and teacher
Robert Latham Brown authored the long acclaimed book Planning the Low-Budget Film , [17] [18] [19] and has been an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts since 1996. Additionally, Brown is a former contributing writer to Indie Slate Magazine, writing a series of reviews on film production software. [20]
Writing awards
Brown's book, Planning the Low-Budget Film was a finalist for the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Awards, [21] and that same year was a first-place winner in the Hollywood Book Festival. [22] In 2002, his screenplay Keats was named a semi-finalist in the 9th Annual Writer's Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition. [23] In 2020, his screenplay Xena & Jonny [24] was named a finalist in the ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition. [25]
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