Adam Brooks (filmmaker) explained

Adam Brooks
Birth Date:3 September 1956
Birth Place:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:Director, screenwriter, actor

Adam Brooks (born September 3, 1956) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor.[1] [2] He is best known for writing and directing Definitely, Maybe (2008) and for writing screenplays for French Kiss (1995), Wimbledon (2004), and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004).[3] His first film as a writer-director Almost You won the Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1985.[3]

Brooks served as a council member of the Writers Guild of America East and is currently on the board of the Writers Guild of America East Foundation.[3] He also teaches film at the Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts.[3] Brooks lives in New York City.[3]

Filmography

YearTitleDirectorWriter
1985Almost You
1988Red Riding Hood
1995French Kiss
1998Beloved
Practical Magic
2001The Invisible Circus
2004Wimbledon
2008Definitely, Maybe
2018Nappily Ever After

Honors and awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Adam Brooks . https://web.archive.org/web/20140328090300/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/83145/Adam-Brooks/biography . dead . March 28, 2014 . Movies & TV Dept. . . 2014 . March 1, 2014.
  2. Web site: Adam Brooks . FilmBug . February 28, 2014.
  3. Web site: Adam Brooks . Writers Guild of America East Foundation . March 1, 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140301120806/http://www.wgaefoundation.org/content/adam-brooks . March 1, 2014.
  4. Web site: Archives: Almost You . Sundance Film Festival . 1985 . March 1, 2014.