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Ben Brooks
Undeterred Pictures is an independent film development and production company founded by Canadian-American writer-producer Ben Brooks on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. The company develops original feature films for North American and international audiences.
Current slate
Sports-betting thriller
A self-excluded mechanic is pulled back into online betting and loses his family’s house fund. His demand for restitution at the sportsbook’s Pittsburgh headquarters becomes an armed siege unfolding against one final wager.
Wedding-day action comedy
When a groom’s college friends kidnap him on his wedding day under the terms of an old pact, his bride and bridesmaids give chase. A wedding weekend becomes a county-wide pursuit.
Toronto crime comedy
Toronto bike courier Navi Khan is pulled into a diamond-ring trafficking scheme connected to Pearson Airport, launching an escalating night across the city.
International dark comedy / road film
To pay for his mother’s urgent heart surgery, a lonely Chinese sex-toy inspector travels across Eurasia to sell an intimate part of himself to an Icelandic museum. Along the way, he is drawn into a Romanian woman’s attempt to recover money from a romance con man.
Psychological / religious horror
A U.S. Senate candidate and his wife hide their surrogate pregnancy at a remote coastal inn, until the fertility clinic confirms that the woman carrying their child was never implanted with an embryo.
Ben Brooks is a Canadian-American screenwriter, producer and songwriter based on Nova Scotia’s South Shore. His career spans publishing, live comedy, radio, television and film.
His first children’s book, The Lemonade Parade, was published by Kids Can Press when he was 19. His comedy and broadcasting credits include Joe’s Convenience, CBC Radio, CBC Comics, Just For Laughs, Comedy Central and The Comedy Network. Joe’s Convenience secured an option and development deal with Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video.
Ben Brooks · Prior feature credit
Story by Ben Brooks. Screenplay by Ben Brooks and Jeff Renfroe. Directed by Jeff Renfroe. Produced by Fella Films and Rolling Picture Company, with international sales by Myriad Pictures and U.S. distribution by Radial Entertainment.
Brooks also wrote and composed the original songs featured in the film.
Starring Isabelle Fuhrman · Douglas Smith · Gil Bellows · Brandon McKnight · Tattiawna Jones
THE POND predates Undeterred Pictures.