Brooke Berman

Brooke Berman’s feature Ramona At Midlife premiered at Bentonville Film Festival and has screened at festivals including: Woodstock, Heartland, Mystic (Audience Choice), NYITFF (Audience Choice, Best Feature), Florida Film Festival, Pasadena International Film Festival (nominated for Best Actress and Best Feature), Omaha Film Festival, Rome Independent Cinema Festival (Best Fiction Feature) and Ridgefield Independent Film Festival (Best Ensemble and Fountain Award).


Brooke has a has written films for Natalie Portman, Mark Gordon, Vox, Fugitive and Red Crown. She adapted and directed the short U4G which premiered at the Aspen International ShortsFest where it won Audience Special Recognition. ALL SAINTS DAY, a short film Brooke wrote, directed by Will Frears, won Best Narrative Short at the Savannah Film Festival and played at the Tribeca Film Festival. Brooke’s feature POLLY FREED was chosen to be part of New York Stage and Film’s Screenwriters Lab where it was mentored by Kyra Sedgewick, Zach Helm and Billy Goldberg and selected as part of the MOME (Mayor’s Office of NYC) inaugural finance lab for female filmmakers and NYWIFT From Script to Preproduction lab. PF has made it to “second round” for Sundance Screenwriting Labs two years in a row and won Best Screenplay at the Toronto Independent Film Festival in 2020.


Brooke trained as an actor with Anne Bogart and studied playwriting as a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at Juilliard. She is a member of the WGA and an alumna of New Dramatists.

Format: Scripted Features, Scripted Episodic, Other

Genre: Coming of Age, Drama, Comedy, Romance, Women

Location: New York, United States

Audience Choice, Mystic Film Festival, 2023 (Ramona At Midlife)

Best Ensemble and "Fountain Award" for overall excellence, Ridgefield Independent Film Festival (Ramona At Midlife) 2024

Best Fiction Feature, Rome Independent Cinema Award (Ramona At Midlife) 2024

Audience Choice, Aspen International Shorts Fest, (U4G) 2013