Brooke Sebold is a documentary and narrative filmmaker currently based in New York City. In 2007, Brooke, and her film collaborators, Todd and Benita Sills, completed their first feature length documentary, Red Without Blue which received over twenty awards including the
audience award from the Slamdance Film Festival and the jury award from the Frameline Film Festival. Red Without Blue screened at 200+ film festivals, universities, and museums all around the world, and garnered glowing reviews in the SF Chronicle, the LA Times, the Advocate, the Seattle Times and the Guardian.
In 2007, Brooke began collaborating with writer, Matthew Tyler, and producer, Veronica Nickel. Their shorts have won numerous awards including the Special Jury Award at the Florida Film Festival, the Accolade Award of Excellence, and the CINE Golden Eagle Award, a prestigious directing award that marked the early careers of Steven Spielberg, Mike Nichols and Ken Burns. In 2010, Brooke participated in the Berlin Talent Campus and the Berlin Co-Production Market with the feature project, Gone, June.
Brooke’s directing and editing work can be seen on NBC, MSNBC, PBS, the Sundance Channel, Logo, and Current TV, where one of the pieces she edited was nominated for an Emmy (2008). Brooke received her B.A. from Brown University in 2003 and is currently a Dean’s Fellow in the M.F.A. film program at Columbia University, School of the Arts.
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