Brooke Goldfinch
- Director
- Writer
- Editorial Department
Writer and director Brooke Goldfinch was an ABC news reporter in Sydney when she decided to drop everything and move to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a filmmaker. A scholarship student in NYU's prestigious graduate film program at Tisch School of the Arts, she was taught by Spike Lee, Todd Solondz and many other notable professors.
Brooke's most recent short Outbreak Generation was the result of her receiving the 2016 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship, with the film premiering at the 2017 Sydney Film Festival.
Brooke's narrative short films have screened in festivals around the world, including Edinburgh and Rome. Brooke received a Screen Australia Talent Escalator Grant for her short film 'Red Rover', which earned her Best Director awards at the 2015 Sydney Film Festival, Flickerfest and St Kilda, as well as AWGIE and ADG nominations. She was selected by actor James Franco to write and direct a segment of the compendium feature film 'The Color of Time', starring James, Jessica Chastain, Mila Kunis and Henry Hopper. She was also mentored by Ridley Scott. Working as his Director's Attachment on 'Alien: Covenant'. Brooke shot and directed a protest scene for Spike Lee's 2015 film 'Chi-Raq'.
Brooke's most recent short Outbreak Generation was the result of her receiving the 2016 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship, with the film premiering at the 2017 Sydney Film Festival.
Brooke's narrative short films have screened in festivals around the world, including Edinburgh and Rome. Brooke received a Screen Australia Talent Escalator Grant for her short film 'Red Rover', which earned her Best Director awards at the 2015 Sydney Film Festival, Flickerfest and St Kilda, as well as AWGIE and ADG nominations. She was selected by actor James Franco to write and direct a segment of the compendium feature film 'The Color of Time', starring James, Jessica Chastain, Mila Kunis and Henry Hopper. She was also mentored by Ridley Scott. Working as his Director's Attachment on 'Alien: Covenant'. Brooke shot and directed a protest scene for Spike Lee's 2015 film 'Chi-Raq'.
