David Brooks

David Worthen Brooks is a US/Brit who received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, before obtaining a master's degree from the University Southern California's Peter Stark Producing Program. Brooks began his career as an award-winning editor and screenwriter. Specifically, Brooks early work was with directors such as Tony Kaye, Ridley Scott, Spike Jonze, Paul Hunter, Leslie Dektor and Baz Luhrmann. Member (2001) marked David's directorial debut. It won best short film at the 2001 Hamptons International Film Festival, and the International Cinematographer's 2001 New Filmmaker's Award. David has been recognized for his creative work by entities including D&AD, Sundance Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, One Show, and the Clios. Most recently Brooks received the 2018 Creative Media Award for branded entertainment with advertiser Mars, for his work as an Executive Producer on Bite Size Horror, a series of short form content for broadcast. Previously, David led Fox Atomic Digital, where he was responsible for all digital content creation. Now, David Worthen Brooks oversees Fox Digital Studio as the EVP and Senior Executive Creative Director. Fox Digital Studio is a division of Walt Disney Television, dedicated to developing, producing, and distributing content, both original and derivative. Fox Digital Studio creates and distributes content via a wide array of both new and traditional media platforms, such as iTunes, Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu-as well as content created for linear programming. While under the leadership of Brooks, Fox Digital Studio has revolutionized its approach to branded content, by cultivating new and unique story-based partnerships with top industry leaders, such as MARS Candy, National Geographic, and NASA. Fox Digital Studio continues to be recognized by top tier festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, TriBeca and SXSW. The group produced projects including Suit Up (starring Marc Evan Jackson), Parallels (starring Constance Wu and Jessica Rothe), and Small Shots (starring Jeremy Luke and Joseph Russo). They are most recently focused on Phenoms, which is a multi-platform, global scale documentary series-following 65 of the world's top emerging soccer players in twenty countries over the past three years, leading up to the World Cup 2018 in Russia. Phenoms is possibly the largest soccer documentary produced to date, comprising 25 hours of programming.