About Brooke
“
I was born a storyteller.
Which is why I have dedicated
the last decade
to honing
my craft.
”
MY STORY:
As a visual storyteller, it has always been my mission to utilize my skills and knowledge to enhance the stories of communities and individuals around the world. Effective storytelling is a talent that I've honed over the last decade.
My first feature-length documentary The Connected Cup was filmed and edited over the course of 3 years across 9 countries. During the journey of creating my feature documentary, I was a solo-female traveler working on visual stories in 22 countries. While creating videos and photography series for organizations, non-profits, and businesses around the world, I noticed that there is a need for non-extractive storytelling techniques in mission driven narratives. When I work with organizations to effectively share their story, I combine my Journalism background, Filmmaking practices, and Humanitarian heart to create visuals with an impact. I love creating visuals that fuel human to human connection.
As a former Division 1 athlete at the University of Iowa, I adapted quickly to the structure, dedication, and time management needed as a student athlete. Those skills, along with a steadfast work ethic, allowed me to start my production company at 23 years old.
My full professional biography can be found below. Thank you for taking the time to get to know me! Please feel free to reach out.
Professional Biography
Brooke Bierhaus is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, visual storyteller, and media personality. Creator of the feature length documentary, The Connected Cup, Brooke specializes in narrative driven storytelling with an immersive approach.
Dubbed the "Anthony Bourdain of Coffee", Brooke traveled the world documenting and sharing coffee cultures. Her on-camera personality has been described as "wholesome, inspirational, and provoking". Creator of the feature length documentary, The Connected Cup, Brooke specializes in narrative driven storytelling that highlights the many layers of the human condition. She began her career in wildlife reporting and photography, and with a background in human rights and ethnology, she began to work with communities surrounding wildlife areas to share stories of conservation, co-existing, and indigenous origins.
Brooke has 10 years of on-camera hosting experience, as well as 6 years of Directing & Filmmaking work including the award-winning short "Regeneration of Land and Culture" and the feature-film "The Connected Cup."
The Connected Cup follows the global language of coffee and tea as a universal means of human connection, and how clean water plays a vital role in this fabric of the human experience. Filmed across 9 countries and in 9 languages to further the idea of a universal language.
Brooke is a published National Geographic TopShot Photographer, and works on stories that bridge Anthropology and Journalism. From summiting Mount Kilimanjaro to reporting in post-conflict zones in East Africa and the Middle East, Brooke handles stressful situations with care and purpose.
Brooke was awarded a Women In Film & Television grant in 2019 to finish her short documentary Women of the West Bank. Her work has appeared in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, NBC Sports, Global Coffee Festival, Bloom Magazine, NBC, FOX, and UNICEF to name a few. Brooke is a recipient of Doc Society and Exposure Lab’s Climate Story Lab - South 2021 social impact production cohort for her current documentary with Quapaw Nation: “Regeneration of Land and Culture”.
Brooke is driven by creating work that makes people feel seen, heard, and valued. A graduate of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Masters in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. Brooke is certified in Hostile Environment First Aid through the Global Journalist Security 2019.
Brooke is the Events Chair for Women In Film Arkansas.
Who I've worked with recently:
National Geographic Top Shot Image
YourShot Photographers - 2018
Exposure Labs Climate Lab - US South
Doc Society & Exposure Labs - 2021
Grand Jury Winner
Coffee Art Project Los Angeles- 2019
Official Selection - Short Documentary
Sunscreen Film Festival - 2021
Short Film Finishing Fund
Women in Film Florida - 2020
The Connected Cup Screening
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville Arkansas
June 2020
Global Coffee Festival Screening
The Connected Cup
November 2020
New York Coffee Festival
New York City, NY
October 2019
Il Mundo in una Tazza
Rome, Italy
June 2015 and again March 2019
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