phillip j. brooks resume june 2015
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PHILLIP JORDAN BROOKS 9875 Sand Cherry Way Phone: 318.347.4118 Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80129 [email protected] ______________________________________________________________________________
SUMMARY
Accomplished and versatile Video/Film Producer, Director, Editor, and Location Manager with a decade of experience in pre-production through post-production, both on and off the set, for feature films, television, shorts, commercials, industrials, and personal projects. Excels at effective relationship-building, budget, time and contract management, and making sound judgments under pressure and within tight deadlines.
KEY SKILLS
• Effective supervisor and natural leader • Proficient with Apple OS • Screenwriting, marketing, and fundraising • Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite including
After Affects, Motion • Scheduling and balancing multiple priorities • Expertise in Final Cut Pro • Excellent customer service and communication • Archives Management of both tape and digital
files • Skilled video/film equipment operator • Effective equipment and workflow instructor
ACCOMPLISHMENTS & RECOGNITION
• Worked in a management capacity on over a dozen major studio films, a major network television series, and many other shorts, commercials, promos, and industrials with crews totaling upwards of seventy-five people and budgets up to $500k.
• Consistently and effectively dealt with a diverse set of tasks, challenges, and people to complete projects within or under time and budget projections.
• Wrote, directed, produced, and successfully raised funds for several personal projects. • 2012 Director's Circle -- Best Horror Short -- Nobody But Her • 2012 Louisiana Film Prize -- Finalist -- This is a Microphone • 2013 Louisiana Film Prize -- Finalist -- Ruby and the Dragon
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS (MAJOR STUDIO, INDEPENDENT, TELEVISION) Location Manager: Year One (2009, reshoots) I Spit On Your Grave (2010) Season of the Witch (2011, reshoots) Key Assist. Location Manager: The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014) The Last Word (2015)
Line Producer/UPM: Legend of Love (2012) Location Scout: Drive Angry (2011) Trespass (2011) Leatherface 3D (2011) Hatchet 2 (2011) Key Location Assistant: Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
Additional Set PA: Austin Powers 2 (1998) Assistant Location Manager: Year One (2009) The Gates (2010, TV Series) The East (2013) Snitch (2013) Streets of Blood (2009)
PHILLIP JORDAN BROOKS 8863Wagner Court Phone: 318-347-4118 Littleton, Colorado 80126 [email protected] ______________________________________________________________________________
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS (PERSONAL, INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL) Director/ Writer/ Producer Deliberate (2005; Teraton/DiIulio/Johnson) (16mm) Skewed (2004; Teraton/Ikonoklast) (BetaSP) Stovepipe (2003; Teraton/Ikonoklast) (16mm) Nature of the Drug (2002; Teraton Perspective) (DV) Real Estate Web Videos (Shreveport-Real-Estate.net) Director/ Writer 2x spots for BLG Plumbing (Clifton Digital) 3x spots for Kon Tiki Restaurant (Clifton Digital)
Director/ Producer Ruby and the Dragon (2013; Teraton Perspective) This is a Microphone (2012; Teraton Perstpective) Nobody But Her (2012; Teraton/Thompson/DiIulio) 1x spot for Skyrunner (Skyrunner/Parajet)
LINKS TO RELEVANT WORK SAMPLES & INFORMATION
Personal, industrial, & commercial projects: http://vimeo.com/87243218 IMDB Profile: http://imdb.com/name/nm2932366/
EDUCATION
2002-2006 Centenary College of Louisiana - Bachelor of Arts in Communications
1997-2001 US Marine Corps - Corporal (NCO) - Honorably Discharged
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Jim Small Location Manager/Assistant Location Manager Pampano Beach, FL Phone: 954-785-9290/310-658-7483 Arlena Acree Shreveport Film Commissioner Shreveport, LA Phone: 318-423-7480 Dennis Thompson Owner of Two Point Enterprise/Bossier Real Estate Bossier City, LA 318-272-0951