I did that for a number of years and then I became a manager. So, I actually applied for a job as a coordinator, which is someone who takes notes and sets up meetings to help keep movies going. So, I went there and I thought I’d just love to be a part of this. I had just seen Finding Nemo which of course I loved. The multi-faceted artist shares with us his unlikely adventure, from Emeryville to Ancient Scotland.Īnimated Views: What led you to working at Pixar?Īlex Mandel: Nine years ago, I was giving guitar lessons to an animator at Pixar and he said: “you know, you should really come by and visit”. Touch the Sky accompanies Merida’s liberating and exhilarating ride through the forest when she is able to escape the confines of castle life whereas Into the Open Air is heard later in the film during a special moment between mother and daughter. These songs have been featured in many TV shows, including Everwood, Notes From the Underbelly, and Teen Mom 2.Īlex Mandel’s two “ Brave new songs”, performed by acclaimed Scottish Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, are among the film’s musical highlights. He has released four critically-acclaimed albums of his songs, one with The Echo Falls and three with The Fingers. Have Pixar found their own “staff-songwriter” (the position held at Walt Disney Productions by the Sherman brothers, the only full-time in-house songwriters Walt Disney had hired)? Alex Mandel’s position at Pixar is definitely different but you can’t help thinking about that when considering his latest adventure.Īlex Mandel has been a Pixar manager on such films as Up, Toy Story 3, and Cars 2 and a filmmaker well versed in the collaborative nature of film production, but at the same time he’s an acclaimed songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer for film, TV and radio who came to write two songs for the Lamp’s latest hit movie, Brave.Ī genuine Pixarian, he also composed the score for the Pixar short film Your Friend the Rat, directed by Academy Award Nominee Jim Capobianco (Best Original Screenplay, Ratatouille), which won the Annie Award in 2007 for Best Animated Short Film.
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