Brooke Silcox

Brooke is an award-winning drama and documentary producer who founded the production company No Thing Productions, working to highlight humanitarian causes and the importance of the arts.

Brooke has three degrees, in Fine Arts; Communication, Cultural & Performance Studies and Law, having studied in Perth, Melbourne and Oxford. Brooke won the ScreenWest Emerging Producer Prize of $100,000 in recognition of her work, was selected as one of Screen Producer’s Australia’s “Ones to Watch” and won the prestigious Brian Beaton Award in recognition of social impact through film.

Brooke produced the feature documentary Jebediah: Are We OK?, celebrating 30 years of music, friendship and growing up with one of Australia’s most beloved bands. Her other feature documentary credits include Rockabul (nominated for Best Australian Documentary at Sydney Film Festival and winner of Best Music Documentary at Arizona Film Festival) and Meal Tickets (winner of Best Australian Documentary at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival). Brooke also produced the multiple award-winning short films Freedom Swimmer (winner at the Academy Award-accredited Aspen Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Athens Film Festival and DocEdge Film Festival) and Judas Collar (winner of Best Short Film at the Academy Award-accredited Austin Film Festival, Texas, and St Kilda Film Festival). Her credits also include two online documentary series for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Home: The Art of Ian Strange and The Bad Guy: Abdul Abdullah.

Brooke associate produced the feature film Jirga, which was Australia’s Academy Awards submission for Best Foreign Film in 2019 and winner of Australia’s Richest Film Prize ($100,000) at CinefestOz.

Brooke started her career in the art department on large-scale productions The Knowing, Blessed, The Killer Elite, The Turning and Australian series Winners and Losers.

Brooke also has curated art exhibitions including for the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival.