A DIFFERENT AMERICAN DREAM

Simon Brook was born in London and was educated in Paris and London. After training for a year as an actor at the London Drama Center, he moved to Paris where he worked as Company Manager for the European tours of Pina Bausch, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, and the Murray Louis Dance Company. He then spent a few years in New York and Los Angeles where he pursued a career in the film industry. He established Black Cat Productions in New York, producing TV dramas, music videos, and shorts. His many documentaries include 20 short films about children in Caucasus, a documentary on the Amazon river for France 2, a documentary about the Karo tribe of Ethiopia for Canal+, and the documentary feature Brook by Brook, co-produced by the Dardenne brothers. More recently, he produced and directed Annie Nightingale: Bird on the Wireless, a one-hour prime-time musical documentary with Paul McCartney and Mick Jones (of the Clash) for the BBC, and the 90-minute documentary Indian Summer, a medical road film about Ayurvedic medicine.