[1] At the age of 16, Brooks ran away from her small town home in Louisiana to pursue a career in television and film.

Her film and television credits include three seasons of the Emmy Award-winning show The Osbournes, Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, and MTV's groundbreaking The Real World.

Brooks' first feature film, Loving Annabelle, starred Erin Kelly, Diane Gaidry, and Kevin McCarthy.

[6][7] Brooks wrote her second feature, the indie thriller Waking Madison, in New Orleans, a film which starred Sarah Roemer (Disturbia), Elisabeth Shue, Will Patton, Frances Conroy, and Taryn Manning.

The short film was part of a series called Virgin Memoirs, a compilation that narrated the "first-time" experiences of women.

Dear Emily was funded by EVEO.com after Brooks won a pitch contest for her feature film, Loving Annabelle.

Using a video camera to document herself like a visual journal, Madison clearly states in her first entry that if she does not have the answers to her questions and feels more at people with her life on the 30th day, she will kill herself.

Brooks stated: I'm intrigued by the challenge of telling a story from the perspective of a character suffering from multiple personality disorder.

[14] Brooks completed a documentary with the director doing a three-month summer trip around the country, meeting 50 of her Facebook friends who said yes when she posed the question as her status, "Who would like to spend a day with me and I'll come visit you".