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Matthew Cooke(V)

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Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.
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Since July 2015 Actor / Filmmaker / Activist Matthew Cooke's social justice and advocacy commentaries have been viewed over 100 million times on FaceBook - shared and promoted by the ACLU, World Star Hip Hop, Bernie Sanders, Cornel West, Susan Sarandon, Julian Lennon, DL Hughley, Adrian Grenier, RYOT.org, FilmingCops.org, The Anti-Media, The Free Thought Project, and many more.

In 2016 the Bernie Sanders Presidential campaign engaged Cooke to create endorsement videos with Sanders, Mark Ruffalo, Rosario Dawson, Danny DeVito and many more.

For his social activism Cooke's been invited to speak at NYU, University of Texas, TEDx in Vienna, and was honored to join Sankofa (Harry Belafonte's organization of artists for social change).

Cooke got his start in non fiction as the Producer- Editor of "Deliver Us From Evil" which earned the Academy Award Nomination for Best Documentary film, made over 100 critics "best of" lists and is one of Rotten Tomatoes top 100 best reviewed films of all time.

In 2010 Cooke was Producer-Editor for the critically acclaimed HBO Documentary "Teenage Paparazzo" featuring Adrian Grenier, Matt Damon, Whoopie Goldberg, Alec Baldwin, Rosie O'Donnell...

In 2013 Cooke wrote, directed, and narrated "How To Make Money Selling Drugs" featuring Eminem, 50 Cent, Susan Sarandon, Woody Harrelson and David Simon (creator of HBO's The Wire).

DRUGS was distributed by Robert DeNiro's Tribeca Film where it shot to #1 on iTunes and Amazon Prime for over 6 weeks. DRUGS won the audience award at every festival it screened and earned the International Documentary Associations "Best Writing Award" for 2013.

Cooke's credits on "How to Make Money Selling Drugs" also include: editor, cinematographer, motion graphics designer and art director.

In 2014 Cooke and Emmy Award Winning Producer Steve DeVore began "Survivors Guide to Prison" (executive produced by Susan Sarandon) featuring The Prophets of Rage: Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), Chuck D (Public Enemy), B-Real (Cypress Hill), RZA, Q Tip (Tribe Called Quest), Quincy Jones, Patricia Arquette, Deepak Chopra, Russell Simmons, Brandon Boyd (Incubus), Busta Rhymes, Ice T, Danny Glover, Cynthia Nixon, Warren G and many more. Produced by David and Christina Arquette and Gina Belafonte.

In fiction, Cooke got his start acting and directing short films and comedy sketches for Fuel TV. In 2007 Cooke wrote the screenplay sequel to "The Falcon and the Snowman" which was assigned to A-list agents at ICM.

In 2015 Cooke began developing the science fiction feature Rapid Eye Movement and Note To Self(ish), Cooke's narrative feature film debut as writer-director-actor.
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Known for

Bad Dad
7.7
TV Series
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How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012)
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
7.6
  • Director
  • 2012
Stupidface (2007)
Stupidface
6.8
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  • Director
Deliver Us from Evil (2006)
Deliver Us from Evil
7.9
  • Editor
  • 2006

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Director

  • Superdrunk
    • Pre-production
  • The War of the Worlds 2021 (2021)
    The War of the Worlds 2021
  • Survivors Guide To Prison (2018)
    Survivors Guide To Prison
  • Confinement
  • Salem: Witch War Special (2015)
    Salem: Witch War Special
  • How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012)
    How to Make Money Selling Drugs
  • Bad Dad
  • Stupidface (2007)
    Stupidface

Writer

  • Superdrunk
    • Pre-production
  • The Death of My Two Fathers (2021)
    The Death of My Two Fathers
  • The War of the Worlds 2021 (2021)
    The War of the Worlds 2021
  • Survivors Guide To Prison (2018)
    Survivors Guide To Prison
  • How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012)
    How to Make Money Selling Drugs
  • Bad Dad
  • Stupidface (2007)
    Stupidface
  • Changing Direction

Editor

  • Alan Cumming, Jason Isaacs, Jonathan Cake, Alex Désert, Jonathan Firth, Lorien Haynes, Issy Knopfler, Emmett Carnahan, and Charlie Field in Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men (2021)
    Everything I Ever Wanted to Tell My Daughter About Men
  • The Death of My Two Fathers (2021)
    The Death of My Two Fathers
  • The War of the Worlds 2021 (2021)
    The War of the Worlds 2021
  • Lorien Haynes and Richard Wilson in Michael (2020)
    Michael
  • Jason Isaacs and Lorien Haynes in Indigo (2020)
    Indigo
  • Survivors Guide To Prison (2018)
    Survivors Guide To Prison
  • How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012)
    How to Make Money Selling Drugs
  • Bad Dad
  • Deliver Us from Evil (2006)
    Deliver Us from Evil
  • Changing Direction
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