Stephen David Brooks

Upon graduating from U.C.L.A film school, Stephen began his career as a Visual Effects Supervisor under the tutelage of two time Academy Award winner John Dykstra (SPIDERMAN 1&2/HANCOCK).

Stephen added the title of screenwriter to his resume when he adapted Stephen King’s short story THE MANGLER for New Line Cinema, under the supervision of Stephen King himself. Stephen is now a Stephen King approved screenwriter. Stephen not only wrote THE MANGLER, but also directed 2nd unit and supervised the Visual Effects while on location in South Africa. After the success of THE MANGLER Stephen started taking on screenwriting work as well as directing 2nd Unit on various films around the world.

Stephen’s next three projects were for Nu Image where he wrote the screenplays for SPIDERS and SPIDERS 2. In addition to writing duties on SPIDERS 2 Stephen also directed the 2nd Unit and Effects Unit in Bulgaria. Soon after Stephen found himself

at Ramoji Film Studios in India directing 2nd Unit on AIR PANIC. After wrapping the last of his Nu Image trilogy Stephen decided it was time to move into the director’s chair.

The world premiere of Stephen’s feature directorial debut HEADS N TAILZ was in Los Angeles at the 2005 Dances With Films festival, where the film won the Fusion Audience Award. Moving to Europe, HEADS N TAILZ screened at the Festival Du Cinéma De Bruxelles and the Swansea Film Festival in Swansea, Wales. HEADS N TAILZ also received a Special Jury Prize from The Festival Du Film De Strasbourg. HEADS N TAILZ also screened in a competition at the 2008 European Independent Film Festival in Paris, France and then the D.C. Independent Film Festival in Washington D.C.

Stephen’s short BINKY screened in the Shorts Corner at the 2014 The Cannes Film Festival and had its US premiere at Dances With Films, showing at the legendary Chinese Theater in Hollywood. BINKY also won the Best Screenplay and Best Actress Awards at the 2014 Monaco International Film Festival and an Award of Merit from Best Shorts.

Stephen’s second feature FLYTRAP had its World Premiere at ECU The European Independent Film Festival in April and won the Best Non-European Independent film prize as well as the prestigious Remi Award from Worldfest Houston, the same award given to Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, George Lucas, and The Coen Brothers.

FLYTRAP recently won The Special Jury Prize at the Chelsea Film Festival in New York.