Brenda Chapman

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Brenda Chapman is a director for Pixar.

A native of the state of Illinois, Chapman's interest in animation as a teenager led her to study and then at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). During her summer breaks, she began her professional career working in syndicated television animation. After graduating with a BFA in Character Animation, she was a story trainee on Disney's successful animated film The Little Mermaid. She later served as head of story another Disney film, The Lion King, overseeing both the writers and the artists on the project.

Chapman also worked in story and development for other Disney animated films such as The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She joined DreamWorks Animation at its inception in the fall of 1994, but is now working at Pixar where she is currently developing her second animated feature as a director.[1]

Chapman is only the third woman ever to direct an animated film (Lotte Reiniger of The Adventures of Prince Achmed, and Arna Selznick of The Care Bears Movie, came before her).

She is married to Disney director and animator Kevin Lima.

During her career, she also participated in the production of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (from Disney's Touchstone subsidiary), as well as DreamWorks' Chicken Run and she was one of a team of three directors who worked on 1998's The Prince of Egypt (along with Steve Hickner and Simon Wells).

She is currently directing The Bear and the Bow for Pixar Animation Studios which will be released in Christmas 2011.[2]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Biography paragraph of Brenda Chapman from October 2006 Screen Writing Expo brochure
  2. ^ "The Walt Disney Studios Rolls Out Slate of 10 New Animated Motion Pictures Through 2012", Walt Disney Company, via PRNewswire, 2008-04-08. Retrieved on 2008-04-08. 

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