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Brian S. Kalata

  • Location Management
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  • Director
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Brian S. Kalata
Brian, along with writing partner Rick Shaughnessy started off the feature film, Dinner Rush, which was directed by Bob Giraldi and stars: Danny Aiello, John Corbett, Edoaurdo Ballerini, Kirk Acevedo, Ajay Naidu, Summer Phoenix, Vivian Wu, Alex Corrado and Mike McGlone.

Dinner Rush, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and was widely praised by critics amid was listed on Richard Roeper's list of The Top 100 Movies of the Decade (2000-2010), and is selected in Leonard Maltin's book, Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen.

A graduate of Columbia College in Chicago, Brian worked for a time with writing partner, Rick Shaughnessy, at First Generation Film/Video, before returning to school to earn his Juris Doctorate at Chicago-Kent Law School. He had a private Practice in Chicago, where he continues to maintain his law license.

Brian has worked as part of the creative team on numerous film and television projects, including: Oceans 11 and Oceans 12, The Road To Perdition, Californication, The Middle, The United States of Tara, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Stranger then Fiction, The Longest Yard, Monster-in Law, and National Treasure, to name a few.

In the fall of 2013, Brian founded Lucky Coffee Productions with David Klink and Marilyn Rall and Producing Partner, Stephen Andrzejewski.
BornJuly 24
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BornJuly 24
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      • 1 win & 2 nominations total

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    Known for

    Dinner Rush (2000)
    Dinner Rush
    7.2
    • Writer(as Brian Kalata)
    • 2000
    Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike (2014)
    Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike
    8.4
    • Writer
    • 2014
    Joaquín Cosio, J.J. Soria, Carlos Santos, and Karrie Martin Lachney in Gentefied (2020)
    Gentefied
    7.4
    TV Series
    • Location Management
    John C. Reilly, Adrien Brody, Jason Clarke, Solomon Hughes, Sean Patrick Small, Hadley Robinson, and Quincy Isaiah in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022)
    Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
    8.3
    TV Series
    • Location Management

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    Location Management



    • Alyah Chanelle Scott, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, Amrit Kaur, Pauline Chalamet, and Renika Williams-Blutcher in The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021)
      The Sex Lives of College Girls
      7.7
      TV Series
      • location manager (as Brian Kalata)
      • 2024–2025
    • John C. Reilly, Adrien Brody, Jason Clarke, Solomon Hughes, Sean Patrick Small, Hadley Robinson, and Quincy Isaiah in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022)
      Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
      8.3
      TV Series
      • location manager
      • 2023
    • Evan Peters in Monstres (2022)
      Monstres
      7.8
      TV Series
      • additional location manager
      • 2022
    • Adrian Greensmith, Jaeden Martell, and Isis Hainsworth in Metal Lords (2022)
      Metal Lords
      6.7
      • addl location manager (as Brian Kalata)
      • 2022
    • Joaquín Cosio, J.J. Soria, Carlos Santos, and Karrie Martin Lachney in Gentefied (2020)
      Gentefied
      7.4
      TV Series
      • location manager
      • 2020–2021
    • Maika Monroe in The Stranger (2020)
      The Stranger
      6.2
      TV Series
      • location manager
      • 2020
    • Wander Darkly (2020)
      Wander Darkly
      5.8
      • location manager
      • 2020
    • Billy Gardell and Folake Olowofoyeku in Bob Hearts Abishola (2019)
      Bob Hearts Abishola
      7.0
      TV Series
      • location manager
      • 2019
    • Amy Adams, Patricia Clarkson, and Eliza Scanlen in Sharp Objects (2018)
      Sharp Objects
      8.0
      TV Mini Series
      • key assistant location manager
      • 2018
    • Run for Your Life
      7.3
      TV Movie
      • location manager
      • 2018
    • Julianne Moore, Matt Damon, and Oscar Isaac in Bienvenue à Suburbicon (2017)
      Bienvenue à Suburbicon
      5.8
      • key assistant location manager
      • 2017
    • Andy Serkis and Amiah Miller in La planète des singes : Suprématie (2017)
      La planète des singes : Suprématie
      7.4
      • assistant location manager: California plate unit
      • 2017
    • Sterling K. Brown, Chrissy Metz, and Faithe Herman in This Is Us (2016)
      This Is Us
      8.7
      TV Series
      • key assistant location manager (uncredited)
      • 2016
    • Titus Welliver in Harry Bosch (2014)
      Harry Bosch
      8.5
      TV Series
      • key assistant location manager (as Brian Kalata)
      • 2016
    • David Duchovny in Californication (2007)
      Californication
      8.3
      TV Series
      • key assistant location manager
      • 2007–2014

    Writer



    • Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike (2014)
      Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike
      8.4
      • writer
      • 2014
    • Dinner Rush (2000)
      Dinner Rush
      7.2
      • written by (as Brian Kalata)
      • 2000

    Director



    • Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike (2014)
      Pencils Down! The 100 Days of the Writers Guild Strike
      8.4
      • Director
      • 2014

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      • Brian Kalata
    • Height
      • 1.83 m
    • Born
      • July 24
      • Chicago, Illinois, USA

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      He is currently finishing rewrites on a new feature film script. He is dividing his time between New York and Chicago.

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