Foundation with $551.68 million in assets adds two board members

A Sarasota foundation recently appointed a former screenwriter and senior law partner to its board of directors. 

Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation announced Steve Barancik, a former screenwriter and educator and the son of the foundation’s late founders, Charles and Margery Barancik, is one of the new board members. The other is Ben Hanan, a senior partner at the Sarasota office of law firm Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, according to a statement. 

“The Last Seduction,” one of the movies Barancik, who has four credits on his IMDb page, worked on during his career received a nomination for the 1995 Edgar Allan Poe Awards for Best Motion Picture.