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Each month we will showcase a City agency employee or an industry specialist who helps to facilitate production in New York City.
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Mac Brown: Interpreting NYC on the Silver Screen April 1, 2005 - Mac Brown, the executive producer of You’ve Got Mail, The Interpreter and The Departed, got his start in New York City’s production industry as a Production Assistant (PA) on Hair in 1979. Initially hired for three weeks, he proved himself and ended up keeping the job for thirteen months. “The costume designer, Ann Roth, told me then, too many production people say no,” Brown said. “Learn to say yes, because that will get you to the big movies.” Brown quickly became an Assistant Production Manager on the films Wolfen and Rollover, before at the age of 25 rising to Production Manager on smaller projects. Some of his favorite New York City locations include the Upper West Side neighborhood and the old Barney’s store on Broadway and 17th street used as Tom Hanks’ bookstore in You’ve Got Mail; a Soho loft which he transformed into a small studio while producing Unfaithful; and the United Nations, where The Interpreter was shot. “It’s cliché and so obvious, but its also so true that New York is the capital of the world and there’s no better place to be, especially in an industry that is about images and visuals and energy and people,” Brown said. “It’s the center of everything. New York was the home of the first filmmakers in the world, and you’ve got history with you every day.” The Interpreter, which was directed by Sydney Pollack and stars Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, releases in theatres on April 22. The film tells the story of a United Nations interpreter who overhears an assassination plot. Brown is currently at work on The Departed, a Martin Scorsese film about the mafia, starring Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson. Click here for more on The Interpreter  More Industry Stars | |
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