Yoni Brenner wrote the screenplay for Rio 2 along with director Carlos Saldanha, Don Rhymer, Jenny Bicks and Carlos Kotkin. He wrote the screenplay for the feature film animated Ice Age 3 and the animated short Surviving Sid, both of Blue Sky Studios.
Yoni also directed the short films Double Negative Political Ad and Santorum!, but on the latter, he was one of the vocals of the Music Department.