Brook Driver | |
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Nationality | British |
Occupations | |
Years active | 2015–present |
Notable work | Swede Caroline (2024) |
Awards | South by Southwest (2021 Final Draft Screenwriters Award) Raindance Film Festival (The Spirit Award - Winner) |
Website | brookdriver |
Brook Driver is a British screenwriter and film director based in London. He is currently the creative director at Deadbeat Films. [1]
In 2021, he was the winner of the Final Draft Screenwriters Award at South by Southwest (SXSW). [2]
His film Swede Caroline (which he wrote and co-directed with Finn Bruce) won the Spirit Award at the Raindance Film Festival [3] and was nominated for the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) Longlist. [4]
In 2023, his collaboration with Hassan Akkad, short film Matar, won the Fiction Award at the Novella Film Festival [5] and Best Short Film at the Shark Awards. [6]
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Editor | Notes | Ref. |
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2016 | Red Handed | No | Yes | No | Short film | [7] |
2018 | Elron of Egham | Yes | Yes | No | Short film | [8] |
2019 | Summer 2018 - The Documentary #ItsComingHome | No | Yes | Yes | Short film | [9] |
2021 | Paul Dood's Deadly Lunch Break | No | Yes | No | [10] | |
2023 | Matar | No | Yes | No | Short film | [11] |
2024 | Swede Caroline | Yes | Yes | No | [12] |
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