Monkey Brains, LLC is a film and television production company. This website is the home for its slate of projects.
Projects (more links to come)
The Catalyst Series
Monster Heart
Big Top Cop
Reminds Me of a Joke
The Last Resort
Partners
About
Monkey Brains, LLC is a film and television production company developing a number of projects and MonkeyBrainsFilms.com is the site that hosts them.
Alan Howard Fine is the president of Monkey Brains, LLC as well as a travel and screen writer, director, producer, editor and composer. Fine has worked for DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures, and has sold screen and teleplays to TriStar Pictures, Universal Studios, USA Networks and Pachyderm Entertainment.
As Partner and Chief Multimedia Officer for Insider Travel Report (www.InsiderTravelReport.com), Fine produces every video on the site. He shares video interviewing duties with his partner, thirty year award-winning travel writer James Shillinglaw, and is responsible for writing and producing at least a video a day for its newsletter going out to over 86,000 travel advisors each morning.
Fine wrote and directed the short film, “The Catalyst,” which was released in festivals as a proof-of-concept. The short won ten awards before being pulled to be made into a feature film with co-production company, Moving Pictures Media Group. The feature is currently in active development and is also being considered for a possible television series. (www.CatalystGhostStories.com)
Fine co‐created, produced, directed and edited six educational films in the successful “Classroom Encounters” series, which was sold to libraries and schools domestically and internationally. Fine directed infomercials for Roth Advertising as well as directing readings of his play “Fountain of Youth” at both the prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse and at the Actors Theatre Workshops in Manhattan.
Fine served as technical consultant for Pop.com, Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard’s Internet company in Los Angeles. He created a demo for the world’s first interactive situation comedy for the Internet with Visionati and Syzol New Media.
Fine appeared as an actor on “Cheers” and other shows, and has been a stand-up comedian who has appeared on Comedy Central and was a winning contestant on “The Dating Game.” (All can be found on Youtube.) Fine is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild.
Blog
WELCOME TO OUR NEW SITE!
COMING SOON… Pages for each project and maybe some blog posts on what it is like to put a production company together. Thank you for visiting and we hope you have reason to visit again soon. af