Cary Granat
“The world is at a dangerous low in the efficacy and trust of information and communication in all forms.”
From his personal statement for The Vine.
I recently left the world of industry to devote my life to the world of education, research, and helping to build the next generation of leaders as the new Dean of the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Moody College has top-ranked schools in film and television, journalism, communication, marketing and PR, leadership, and medical fields (speech, language, hearing, dementia). Having the chance to bring 30 years of industry and research partnerships to Moody is one of the most exciting challenges I have ever taken on.
The thousands of students we serve daily are extremely bright and are the hope for change and innovation going forward.
The students we serve daily are the hope for change and innovation going forward.
The world is at a dangerous low in the efficacy and trust of information and communication in all forms. Thus, sitting in the center of the top-ranked College of Communication gives me the opportunity to help bring new reliable forms back to the world. I look forward to collaborating with all Vine members in this important mission.
About Cary Granat
Cary Granat is a leader, innovator, and pioneer in the media industry. He has developed a unique approach to the management and operations of entertainment brands, from inception to becoming industry leaders, such as Walden Media and Miramax-Dimension Films, through focusing on building and energizing communities. He has shown a unique focus on developing intellectual property and franchises, and on finding and developing new revenue models for content in motion pictures, publishing, location-based entertainment, education, and new technologies.
An industry veteran with over 58 films to his credit, Granat has earned a reputation for fostering strong, long-lasting relationships with leading filmmakers, authors, designers, and actors that have led to over $6 billion in box office revenues. He is known for his leadership of Dimension Films in the 1990s (with the Scream, Scary Movie and Spy Kids franchises, The Others, and early-stage development of The Lord of the Rings) and for founding Walden Media, a leading family media company (with The Chronicles of Narnia films, Journey to the Center of the Earth, James Cameron’s Aliens of the Deep, Holes, Charlotte’s Web, Ray and Amazing Grace).