Adam Brooks (Director)

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Adam Brooks (2012)

Adam Brooks (born September 3, 1956 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian screenwriter and film director .

Life

Adam Brooks made his debut as a director and screenwriter in 1984 with the film nothing like away . At the Sundance Film Festival he received the Special Jury Prize for this work . Four years later he staged a reinterpretation of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale with Little Red Riding Hood . This was followed by some work for television, and he also wrote the scripts for films such as French Kiss and The Magic Sisters . In 2001 he made his third film, The Invisible Circus , for which he also wrote the screenplay.

In 1999 he was nominated for the Golden Satellite Award for the 1998 film Human Child.

Brooks directed the pilot of the Bravo series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce . He works as a producer, screenwriter and director for the Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle . The Bravo series Imposters , which he developed together with Paul Adelstein , was broadcast from 2017 to 2018 . He wrote and directed the scripts for this series.

Brooks lives in New York and is an adjunct professor at Columbia University . He was a three-time councilor of the Writers Guild of America East and currently serves on the board of directors of the Writer Guild of America East Foundation .

Filmography (selection)

As a director

As a screenwriter

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personal data
SURNAME Brooks, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto