Helena Brooks

About Helena Brooks

Who is it?: Director, Writer, Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Birth Day: February 22, 1976
Birth Place: New Zealand

Helena Brooks

Voted one of Idealog's Most Creative People, Brooks recently directed TV comedy Drunk History: Australia and was set-up...
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Occupation Director
Age 48 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born February 22, 1976 (New Zealand)
Birthday February 22
Town/City New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

🌙 Zodiac

Helena Brooks’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Helena Brooks was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.

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Voted one of Idealog's Most Creative People, Brooks recently directed TV comedy Drunk History: Australia and was set-up director for top-rating drama The Bad Seed, reviewed as the best NZ noir since Top of the Lake.

She helmed Telefeature The Brokenwood Mysteries, TV drama 800 Words, Sketch-Show Funny Girls and directs high-end TV commercials.Her first short film as a writer-director won Best Art Direction at the New York Short Film Festival.

Her second as a writer-director, Nothing Special, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, selected for festivals worldwide and sold to Canal Plus, SBS Australia, and the Rialto Channel.

She studied creative writing with the late Roald Dahl, gained a B.A double major in Film & Philosophy, and an M.A double major in Screenwriting & Directing. She further studied at British Film Institute masterclasses with Ridley Scott, Charlie Kaufman and Jean-Pierre Jeunet which led to being signed by Ridley Scott Associates.

She is represented by Yellow Creative Management.

Helena Brooks Movies

  • The Bad Seed (2018) as Director
  • Drunk History: Australia (2020) as Director
  • 800 Words (2017) as Director
  • Nothing Special (2005) as Director

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