Brandon “Danger” Saumer - Some might see that middle name as a red flag but do not worry, he has since put his crime fighting days in the past. Somewhere out there exists a story telling how it all happened. Legend has it that it involved an intolerable seagull and a particularly resilient raccoon. He grew up in Calgary, Alberta and instead of becoming a cowboy, he decided he would be a writer to see what debt was all about. To that end, he studied at the Vancouver Film School and tried his hand at professional cooking at some dive-bar university deep in the Texas of Canada. Some say that he used to share a debt collector with Nicholas Cage after running up his credit cards higher than Harold and Kumar.
The “Danger” believes the beauty of being a storyteller is to walk the line between what is true and what is a bold faced lie. Not everything in this bio happened, but it is all true. He believes that the greatest stories, and therein the greatest films, are ones that take us away from the real world but still have a human heart beating within them. Are there giant space robots that fly down and save children with weird names from nuclear attacks? Probably not, but at its core, Iron Giant reminds us of someone who would give everything to protect us, and that glimpse of humanity is what endears us to the film.
That’s pretty much his plan. To create something that can mean something to anyone. A story to remind them of their first naive love, their first devastating heartbreak. A childhood dream, and maybe the day that dream died. Everyone has a pain and a hope, that Brandon believes only art can rekindle.