Yoni Brook is a Peabody Award winning filmmaker whose films have screened at Sundance, Berlinale, and the New York and Toronto Film Festivals.
Brook co-created, co-directed and lensed the docuseries PHILLY D.A., called “the second coming of THE WIRE in docuseries form” by New York Magazine. The series premiered at Sundance, was the first series to screen at the Berlinale, and broadcast on PBS Independent Lens/Topic & BBC Storyville. It won a Peabody Award, duPont-Columbia Award, Gotham Award, and was named one of the best TV series of the year by the New York Times, New Yorker, Vogue, TIME, Variety, Indiewire, Hollywood Reporter, and The Washington Post.
Selected credits include:
32 SOUNDS (DoP, Oscar ® Shortlist, Sundance, Cinema Eye Outstanding Feature)
MENASHE (Producer/DoP, A24, Sundance, Film Independent Spirit Nominee)
VALLEY OF SAINTS (DoP, Film Independent Spirit Nominee, Sundance World Dramatic Audience Award Winner)
BRONX PRINCESS (Director, PBS POV, Berlinale, IDFA, True/False)
THE CALLING (Co-Director, PBS Independent Lens)
A SON’S SACRIFICE (Director, Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary Short, IDA’s Best Documentary Short, PBS Independent Lens).
He regularly films with personalities ranging from the Dalai Lama to Philip Glass, for clients including Meta, Time, and the Ford Foundation. Brook is an alumnus of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, CPB/PBS Producers Academy at WGBH and Berlinale Talents. He has served as a visiting professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College.
