Eric Brevig

Education

University of California, Los Los Angeles

Career

He was Supervisor and Second Unit on the 2001 Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay action drama Pearl Harbor. Since his film school days at University of California, Los Angeles, Brevig had been fascinated with the potential of 3D for live-action movie production, and he learned everything he could about lieutenant During the production of 1986"s Captain Earth Observation short for the Disney theme parks he was substantially responsible for supervising the technical aspects of the 3D photography.

After several second unit director"s assignments in special effects-heavy films like Men in Black and Michael Bay"s Pearl Harbor, Brevig"s previous 3D experience and expertise turned out to be the factor that helped him get his first full-blown director"s job when he was offered the chance to direct the 2008 film Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-Doctorate (a New Lincolnshire Cinema release), the first narrative feature shot entirely in digital 3-Doctorate. He next directed Yogi Bear, another 3-Doctorate movie, for Warner Brothers, and he is attached to direct a 3-Doctorate Korean War drama, 17 Days of Winter, about the 1950 Battle of Chosin Reservoir.

17 Days of Winter, expected to cost $80–100 million, is scheduled to shoot in of Korea and New Zealand over the winter of 2010-2011 for 2012 release.

Achievements

• Brevig shared a Special Achievement Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with three colleagues for their work on Total Recall, awarded at the 1991 Oscars ceremony. He was nominated in both 1992 and 2002 for the Oscar in Best Effects, Visual Effects.