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Katherine Brooks (born March 15, 1976) is an American film writer and director. Brooks is a member of the Directors Guild of America, a Jury Member for Samsung Fresh-Films 2007 (the largest teen filmmaking program in the USA) and is the recipient of the LACE Award for Arts and Entertainment. In 2011, she was named one of the "Amazing Gay Women in Showbiz" by POWER UP.[1]

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Katherine Brooks
Born	Sara Katherine Hill (1976-03-15) March 15, 1976 (age 46) Covington, Louisiana, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Writer, film director
Website	http://www.katherinebrooks.com

Career

Brooks has directed 21 television shows, as well as written and directed 10 films. Her film and television credits include three seasons of the Emmy Award winning show The Osbournes, Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, and MTV's groundbreaking The Real World. While associated with MTV, she helmed the network's There and Back, with Ashley Parker Angel and Tiffany Lynn, Meet the Barkers with Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker, and directed and produced The Simple Life starring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.[2]

Brooks moved into directing feature films after making her short films Finding Kate and Dear Emily.

Brooks's first feature film, Loving Annabelle, which Brooks wrote and directed, stars Erin Kelly, Diane Gaidry and Kevin McCarthy. It debuted at the prestigious Cinequest Film Festival in 2006. The film won the Audience Award and Best Actress Award at Outfest.[3][4] In addition, Loving Annabelle won Best Feature Film at Melbourne Film Festival (2006), Barcelona Film Festival (2006), Atlanta Film Festival (2006), and the Jury Award at Paris Cinema Festival (2006).^{[citation needed]}

Brooks wrote her second feature, the indie thriller Waking Madison, in New Orleans, a film which stars Sarah Roemer (Disturbia), Elisabeth Shue, Will Patton, Frances Conroy, and Taryn Manning. The film explores the journey of a young woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.^{[citation needed]} Her documentary Face 2 Face appeared in Netflix in 2013. Katherine was a Field Producer on the National Geographic show "Impact" produced by Gal Gadot.

Her most recent work is Lost in Time (2018), starring Jill Hennessy.

Personal life

Brooks is a spokesperson for PETA and a practicing Buddhist.^{[citation needed]} Brooks lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.^{[citation needed]}

Films

Finding Kate

In 2004, Erin Kelly and Brooks made an experimental short film called Finding Kate. The short film was part of a series called Virgin Memoirs, a compilation which narrated the "first time" experiences of women.^{[citation needed]}

A young Erin Kelly plays 17-year-old Kate at a wedding reception. When she sees Victoria (Jessica Lancaster), she quickly drops her boyfriend's hand to go and talk to her cousin. The two flirt and end up in the pool together, their eyes dancing until they begin to kiss.^{[citation needed]}

Dear Emily

Sara is going to visit her high school friend Emily. On her journey there, she recalls her last experience with her teenage crush, remembering a letter that she wrote Emily—a letter confessing her love for her. Following a painful flashback to Emily's mocking of Sara after she reads the note, she decides to keep on driving to her destination. Dear Emily was funded by EVEO.com after Brooks won a pitch contest for her feature film, Loving Annabelle. Despite being given only 6 weeks from conception to completion, and just $1,000 to make it, the film, to date, has made back over 500% of its profit.^{[citation needed]}

Loving Annabelle

Loving Annabelle is the controversial story of a Catholic boarding school teacher, Simone Bradley (Diane Gaidry), who has an affair with her female student, Annabelle (Erin Kelly).

The film was summed up by Variety magazine as a "Guilty Pleasure", and has won numerous awards on the festival circuit, including the Outfest Award for Best Actress, and the Outfest Award for the Audience Choice.[5] The film sat in the top five list of videos rented by lesbians according to Wolfe Video's web site.[6] It is recommended by 100% of readers on scene-OUT.com, and is ranked on the bestseller's list in its category on Amazon.[7]

Waking Madison

Waking Madison is the provocative story of a young woman's battle with mental illness.[8][9]

Madison Walker (Sarah Roemer) is suffering of dissociative identity disorder or multiple personality disorder. Living in New Orleans and working as a sex phone operator, Madison is doing everything she can to lead a normal life.

When a series of events leaves Madison suicidal and desperate, she locks herself away in her apartment for 30 days. Using a video camera to document herself like a visual journal, Madison clearly states on her first entry that if she does not have the answers to her questions and feels more at people with her life on the 30th day, she will kill herself.

With the help of Doctor Elizabeth Barnes (Elisabeth Shue), Madison begins to slowly piece her life together. Determined to find a cure for herself, Madison hostages herself in her apartment for 30 days and embarks on a journey to discover: what is real? The climactic twist at the end leaves audiences with the very same question. Brooks stated:

I'm intrigued by the challenge of telling a story from the perspective of a character suffering from multiple personality disorder. Visually, Madison will take on an innovative style of mixing narrative with documentary- realism.

As part of research for the topic, Brooks locked herself up for 30 days and underwent the same process as the character Madison. This helped Brooks to visually re-create her experiences from the trial, bringing the character and the story more to life. Waking Madison was shot on location in New Orleans in Winter 2007.[10]

Face 2 Face

Brooks recently completed a documentary with the director doing a three-month summer trip around the country, meeting 50 of her Facebook friends who said yes when she posed the question as her status, "Who would like to spend a day with me and I'll come visit you". The idea was born after the director had a surgery, and despite having 4700 friends on Facebook, stated that she felt alone.[11]

Filmography

Features

• Lost In Time (2017)
• The Boys Club (pre-production)
• Face 2 Face (2012)
• Waking Madison (2009)
• Loving Annabelle (2006)
• Surrender (2003)

Short films

• Finding Kate (2004)
• Dear Emily (2001)
• Luna Butterflys (2000)
• Outtakes (1998)

Television

• There & Back: Ashley Parker Angel (TV series) (2006)
• My Own (TV series) (2006)
• Meet the Barkers (TV series) (2005)
• Love is in the Heir (TV series) (2004)
• He's a Lady (TV series) (2004)
• Wanna Come In? (TV series) (2004)
• The Simple Life 2: Road Trip (TV series) (2004)
• Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica (TV series) (2003)
• The Real World: San Diego (TV series) (2003)
• The Osbournes (TV series) (2002)
• The Complex (TV series) (2002)
• Sexcetera (TV series) (1998)

See also

• List of female film and television directors
• List of lesbian filmmakers
• List of LGBT-related films directed by women

References

External links

• Katherine Brooks at IMDb
• Katherine Brooks Interview Archived 2009-08-02 at the Wayback Machine

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