Toby Brooks is the Assistant Director of the Sundance Institute Ignite Program, which cultivates and supports a new generation of filmmakers. Brooks has worked for Sundance Institute since 2012, first as the Assistant to the Director of the Sundance Film Festival. From 2012-2017, Brooks was a member of the Emerging Leaders Council at Outfest, a Los Angeles film non-profit that promotes LGBT equality by creating, sharing and protecting LGBT stories on the screen. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he received his B.A. from UCLA.