Writer and director Brooke Goldfinch, a former ABC news reporter in Sydney, left everything behind to pursue her dream of becoming a filmmaker in New York. She was a scholarship student in NYU's prestigious graduate film program at Tisch School of the Arts, where she had the privilege of being taught by renowned directors and professors such as Spike Lee, Todd Solondz, and many others.
Goldfinch's latest short film, Outbreak Generation, was made possible through her 2016 Lexus Australia Short Film Fellowship, and it premiered at the 2017 Sydney Film Festival. Her narrative short films have been showcased in festivals all over the world, including the Edinburgh and Rome film festivals.
Goldfinch 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 chosen by actor James Franco to write and direct a segment of the compendium feature film 'The Color of Time', which stars James, Jessica Chastain, Mila Kunis, and Henry Hopper. Goldfinch was also mentored by Ridley Scott, working as his Director's Attachment on 'Alien: Covenant'.
Additionally, she shot and directed a protest scene for Spike Lee's 2015 film 'Chi-Raq'.
