Brooke Sebold (she/they) is an award-winning filmmaker, editor, and educator whose work centers empathy in storytelling. Their debut feature documentary, Red Without Blue, captured the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival and the Jury Prize at the Frameline Film Festival before airing on the Sundance Channel, PBS, and Netflix. She later co-produced and edited Framing Agnes, which won Sundance’s NEXT Innovator and Audience Awards and was named one of the year’s best films by The New Yorker. Brooke also created and hosts the Anthem- and Communicator-award winning series I Changed My Mind, showcasing the power of intellectual humility. As faculty at The Archer School for Girls, Brooke mentors young voices while developing her narrative feature The Masked Wrestler, a coming-of-age drama about inherited hate, masculinity, and the harm patriarchy inflicts on all young people. Through their company See / Bold / Films, Brooke crafts stories that spark dialogue, bridge divides, and imagine more compassionate futures.

The Masked Wrestler — After he’s expelled for threatening a trans classmate, a grieving teen wrestler is sent to live with his nonbinary entie in Los Angeles, where he must confront the toxic legacy of his late mother — a celebrated cop who taught him how to hate. The Masked Wrestler is Billy Elliot meets American History X, exploring masked wrestling, queer mentorship, and the poetry of teenage redemption.