Alex Mandel has been at Pixar since 2003. Once they discovered he can write songs, he has been able to put those skills to use on shorts and most recently, on Brave.
Alex Mandel backstage at the Brava Theater in San Francisco before taping the Snap Judgment TV/radio show. Photo courtesy Alex Mandel.
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Hey Derrick, great episode! I’m really enjoying Alex’s music and especially love his songs in Brave. I’m intrigued by his story of how he became involved in Brave (by having the director ask him to write a song). I’m intrigued by the fact that he was working in a different group and probably had a good amount of workload. So was he released from his previous group, or did he just have a double workload For me, this is a wider question on how Pixar puts together teams to work on films? It seems quite different than the companies I have worked for. Maybe this would be a good subject for a future episode?
Thanks again, and keep up the great work!