Breck Eisner

Michael "Breck" Eisner (born December 24, 1970) is an American television and film director. Eisner was born Michael Eisner in California, the son of Jane Breckenridge, a business advisor and computer programmer, and Michael Eisner, the former Walt Disney Company chief executive. Eisner attended Harvard High School (now Harvard Westlake), Georgetown University, and the University of Southern California's film school. For a directing project at Georgetown, he filmed a contemporary riff on Alice in Wonderland, shooting scenes in the vast empty attic of Healy Hall on the campus, as well as in an abandoned circular trolley-car tunnel under Dupont Circle in the District of Columbia. At USC, he directed his MFA thesis film, Recon, which starred Peter Gabriel. He also directed a Shakespeare play on the campus. Eisner had used some of Digital Domain's processors to render images for his film, and the company suggested he meet with some commercial production houses. Thus began his career as a...