Michelle Brooks

Michelle Brooks is a passionate and diligent Writer and Director with a twenty year career in TV Short form, documentaries and features. Michelle's first Commissions were for UK Black Entertainment Digital Channel OHTV, Sky Channel 199 where she wrote and Produced the Business Profiles -Make Your Mark, the Dating Documentary Brides and Prejudice, It's follow up Specialist Factual - Why Should I Get Married? The Kubi Springer Show and the hugely popular Black Women in the Media Series which received three million views when it also streamed online in September of 2011. Michelle has since Produced Live Engagement Events with BBC North on Children In Need and in 2017 Michelle became the Lead Live Video Producer at Twitter UK. During her time there Michelle successfully streamed Sky TV's Transfer Day, PGA Tour Golf, BET Awards Red Carpet, One Love Manchester Concert, Westminster Attacks, The Grenfell Fire Disaster and BBC Elections 2017. In 2018 Michelle Founded the BlackLifted Film and Arts Festival which supports and showcases young Black Artists and Filmmakers and in 2020 Michelle was honoured to become one of the judges on the newly created Ealing Film Festival. In 2021 Brooks directed the 20th Annual McKim Lecture - Lessons in History featuring London Architect and Designer Ben Pentreath which was filmed for the Institute of Architectural Arts and the University Club New York and which aired online during the global pandemic. Michelle has several shorts and a sitcom in development and is a Member of the RTS, The Writers Guild of Great Britain, Women in Film and TV, Funny Women and the BFI.