Talmage Cooley
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Talmage Newman Cooley is an American social activist and filmmaker. He is a co-founder and former co-CEO of The Center to Prevent Youth Violence
(formerly PAX), the largest non-lobbying organization dedicated to the issue of gun violence in America. He has also written and directed several award-winning films.
in 1988 with BA and MBA degrees, Cooley moved to New York where he worked as a trader in the fixed income division of Morgan Stanley. In the mid-1990s he left Wall Street and began directing television commercials, including some for prominent non-profits such as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
and the Partnership for a Drug Free America. Through this work, he became interested in large-scale social change efforts that successfully leveraged strategic marketing insights in service of shifting cultural norms, such as “Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk” and “Second Hand Smoke”. He began to explore if such insights could be identified on another major social issue - gun violence.
, created its first campaign (voice-over by Alec Baldwin), which focused on the dangers of kids taking their parents' guns to school. In 1997, The Gun Violence Project merged into a new organization called PAX http://www.paxusa.org/, founded by Cooley and Daniel Gross, an advertising executive whose brother Matthew was wounded in the shooting atop the Empire State Building
in early 1997. In 2011, PAX officially changed its name to The Center to Prevent Youth Violence to better reflect the youth and family focus of its prevention driven campaigns.
In 2000, The Center to Prevent Youth Violence launched its first national campaign, called ASK (Asking Saves Kids). ASK is based on the fact that 40% of homes with children have a gun, with over half those guns left unlocked or loaded. The ASK campaign's message to parents is remarkably simple: "Walk outside your front door. Look right, look left. One of those homes probably has a gun and it’s probably unlocked or loaded. As a parent, you need to ASK if it’s safe where your children play." ASK is a common sense message of injury prevention and parental responsibility, not politics. Since 2000, over 20 million parents have started asking the question, beginning a conversation about guns in the home that never existed before.
The ASK campaign message is supported through partnerships with over 400 grassroots organizations who have brought the ASK message to their communities. Additionally, the American Academy of Pediatrics promotes the ASK message through its 60,000 members nationwide. ASK is further supported by a groundbreaking public service advertising campaign including numerous national media partnerships. http://www.cpyv.org
In 2001, realizing the need for a high-profile campaign to empower young people to prevent gun violence in their schools and neighborhoods, The Center to Prevent Youth Violence launched SPEAK UP, a toll-free hotline for students to anonymously report weapon threats in their schools and neighborhoods. Since inception, the nationwide 1-866-SPEAK-UP hotline has received over 35,000 calls, intervening in countless potential tragedies.
The SPEAK UP hotline is operated in collaboration with national education and law enforcement authorities, including the FBI. Trained counselors, with instant access to translators for 140 languages, collect information from callers and then immediately report the threat to appropriate school and law enforcement officials. The 1-866-SPEAK-UP Hotline is sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers, Children's Defense Fund, National Alliance for Safe Schools, National Association of School Nurses, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of School Safety & Law Enforcement Officers, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of State Boards of Education, National Education Association, National Head Start Association, National School Safety Center and the National School Boards Association, among others.
By 2002, The Center to Prevent Youth Violence had became the largest non-lobbying organization working on the gun violence
issue as a result of the success and rapid expansion of the ASK and SPEAK UP campaigns. By 2008, these campaigns had contributed to a 35% reduction in gun deaths from accidental shootings and suicides among children 18 years old and under. The success of The Center to Prevent Youth Violence's unique approach to social transformation on the gun violence issue gained the attention of the Harvard School of Public Health
, which is currently conducting a multi-city study on the impact of the organization's innovative social marketing and prevention-driven methodology.
The Center to Prevent Youth Violence's boards have included such names as Rob Reiner
, Susan Sarandon
, Richard Belzer
, Rosanne Cash
, Mandy Patinkin
, Griffin Dunne
, Sir Howard Stringer, Mike Novogratz, Michael Price
, Billy Baldwin
, Gavin de Becker
, Liza Chasin
, and Russell Simmons
. The organization has received major support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
, The Richard Goldman
Foundation and the Soros Foundation
, among many others.
Cooley resigned as co-CEO of The Center to Prevent Youth Violence in 2004, but remains an active member of the Board of Trustees.
Fashions co-founder Andy Spade
entitled Public Love, published by Chronicle Books
. The book documented first person accounts of amorous acts conducted in public spaces, juxtaposed with Cooley's photographs of the spaces when empty. Paper Magazine's review of the book said: "The subjects' plain words convey the spontaneity of desire, as well as the apprehension and fear (of getting caught, perhaps, but sometimes of one's partner) inherent in an act that blurs the boundary between public and private."
Cooley's editorial photography has been published in The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Independent and other newspapers and magazines in the US and the UK.
, won numerous Best Film awards at festivals worldwide, and is included in the Sundance Collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art. The film was also featured in American Cinematographer
magazine for its evocative use of digital video
. The film's style of awkward comedy has often been compared to the BBC
television series "The Office
".
In 2005, Cooley directed a stylized short documentary, Dimmer, about a gang of blind
teenagers who roam the streets of the bleak industrial neighborhoods of Buffalo, New York
. Featuring a score by the band Interpol
, Dimmer premiered at the Sundance Film Festival
, was a finalist for the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary
, and won numerous international Best Film awards as well as being exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art and included in its Sundance Collection.
Cooley's first feature film was the comedy Patriotville (renamed Taking Chances by Lions Gate Entertainment), featuring Justin Long
, Rob Corddry
, Nick Offerman
, Keir O'Donnell
and Emmanuelle Chriqui
. The film, a satirical take on greed and corruption in small town America, was shot in South Carolina
and West Virginia
and was released by Lions Gate Entertainment
in 2009.
Cooley's films have won over 20 Best Film and other honors, and he has been profiled in a number of magazines, such as The Fader http://www.thefader.com/, Create, and RES Magazine. He was named one of "10 Filmmakers to Watch" by Screen International and was selected for the "RES Magazine 10 Top Talents" issue in 2006.
Source: IMDB
Worldwide Short Film Festival (Toronto) -- Best Film
Curtas Vila Do Cordo Festival (Portugal) -- Best Short Documentary
Seattle One Reel Festival -- Best Film
Asian American Film Festival -- Best Short Film
Nashville Film Festival -- Special Mention
Aspen Film Festival -- Silver Prize
NY Museum of Modern Art -- Sundance Collection
Hammer Museum LA -- Special Exhibition
RESfest -- Best Film
RESfest -- Special Jury Prize
RiverRun Festival -- Best Documentary Short
Dubrovnik Film Festival (Croatia) -- Best Short Film
Newport Beach Film festival -- Best Screenplay
Filmstock Festival (UK) -- Best Film
Filmstock Festival (UK) -- Best Concept
Grenada Film Festival (Spain) - Best Cinematography
Silverlake Film Festival -- Festival Director’s Prize
St. Louis Film Festival -- Best Short Film
2006 Academy Awards -- Short Documentary Finalist
Source: Footnotes
The Center to Prevent Youth Violence
The Center to Prevent Youth ViolenceThe Center to Prevent Youth Violence , formerly known as PAX, was co-founded in 1998 by Daniel Gross and Talmage Cooley, with the mission of ending the crisis of youth violence in America....
(formerly PAX), the largest non-lobbying organization dedicated to the issue of gun violence in America. He has also written and directed several award-winning films.
Background
After graduating from the University of VirginiaUniversity of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
in 1988 with BA and MBA degrees, Cooley moved to New York where he worked as a trader in the fixed income division of Morgan Stanley. In the mid-1990s he left Wall Street and began directing television commercials, including some for prominent non-profits such as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a private, non-profit organization established in 1984 by the United States Congress.-Establishment and overview:...
and the Partnership for a Drug Free America. Through this work, he became interested in large-scale social change efforts that successfully leveraged strategic marketing insights in service of shifting cultural norms, such as “Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk” and “Second Hand Smoke”. He began to explore if such insights could be identified on another major social issue - gun violence.
The Gun Violence Project & The Center to Prevent Youth Violence
In 1994, Cooley founded The Gun Violence Project, a non-profit organization with the mission to reposition the gun violence issue as an urgent matter of public health (32,000 Americans killed every year, including over 3,000 children) rather than the seemingly intractable political wedge issue it had become. In 1996, The Gun Violence Project, in collaboration with The Creative CoalitionCreative Coalition
The Creative Coalition is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, politically-active group formed of members of the American entertainment industry....
, created its first campaign (voice-over by Alec Baldwin), which focused on the dangers of kids taking their parents' guns to school. In 1997, The Gun Violence Project merged into a new organization called PAX http://www.paxusa.org/, founded by Cooley and Daniel Gross, an advertising executive whose brother Matthew was wounded in the shooting atop the Empire State Building
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark skyscraper and American cultural icon in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet , and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 ft high. Its name is derived...
in early 1997. In 2011, PAX officially changed its name to The Center to Prevent Youth Violence to better reflect the youth and family focus of its prevention driven campaigns.
In 2000, The Center to Prevent Youth Violence launched its first national campaign, called ASK (Asking Saves Kids). ASK is based on the fact that 40% of homes with children have a gun, with over half those guns left unlocked or loaded. The ASK campaign's message to parents is remarkably simple: "Walk outside your front door. Look right, look left. One of those homes probably has a gun and it’s probably unlocked or loaded. As a parent, you need to ASK if it’s safe where your children play." ASK is a common sense message of injury prevention and parental responsibility, not politics. Since 2000, over 20 million parents have started asking the question, beginning a conversation about guns in the home that never existed before.
The ASK campaign message is supported through partnerships with over 400 grassroots organizations who have brought the ASK message to their communities. Additionally, the American Academy of Pediatrics promotes the ASK message through its 60,000 members nationwide. ASK is further supported by a groundbreaking public service advertising campaign including numerous national media partnerships. http://www.cpyv.org
In 2001, realizing the need for a high-profile campaign to empower young people to prevent gun violence in their schools and neighborhoods, The Center to Prevent Youth Violence launched SPEAK UP, a toll-free hotline for students to anonymously report weapon threats in their schools and neighborhoods. Since inception, the nationwide 1-866-SPEAK-UP hotline has received over 35,000 calls, intervening in countless potential tragedies.
The SPEAK UP hotline is operated in collaboration with national education and law enforcement authorities, including the FBI. Trained counselors, with instant access to translators for 140 languages, collect information from callers and then immediately report the threat to appropriate school and law enforcement officials. The 1-866-SPEAK-UP Hotline is sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers, Children's Defense Fund, National Alliance for Safe Schools, National Association of School Nurses, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of School Safety & Law Enforcement Officers, National Association of Secondary School Principals, National Association of State Boards of Education, National Education Association, National Head Start Association, National School Safety Center and the National School Boards Association, among others.
By 2002, The Center to Prevent Youth Violence had became the largest non-lobbying organization working on the gun violence
Gun violence
Gun violence defined literally means the use of a firearm to threaten or inflict violence or harm. Gun violence may be broadly defined as a category of violence and crime committed with the use of a firearm; it may or may not include actions ruled as self-defense, actions for law enforcement, or...
issue as a result of the success and rapid expansion of the ASK and SPEAK UP campaigns. By 2008, these campaigns had contributed to a 35% reduction in gun deaths from accidental shootings and suicides among children 18 years old and under. The success of The Center to Prevent Youth Violence's unique approach to social transformation on the gun violence issue gained the attention of the Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard School of Public Health
The Harvard School of Public Health is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, which is next to Harvard Medical School. HSPH is considered a significant school focusing on health in the...
, which is currently conducting a multi-city study on the impact of the organization's innovative social marketing and prevention-driven methodology.
The Center to Prevent Youth Violence's boards have included such names as Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner
Robert "Rob" Reiner is an American actor, director, producer, writer, and political activist.As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence as Archie and Edith Bunker's son-in-law, Michael "Meathead" Stivic, on All in the Family. That role earned him two Emmy Awards during the 1970s...
, Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her...
, Richard Belzer
Richard Belzer
Richard Jay Belzer is an American stand-up comedian, author, and actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as John Munch, which he has portrayed as a regular cast member on the NBC police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as in guest...
, Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music singer Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin....
, Mandy Patinkin
Mandy Patinkin
Mandel Bruce "Mandy" Patinkin is an award-winning American actor of stage and screen and a tenor vocalist. He is a noted interpreter of the musical works of Stephen Sondheim, and is best-known for his work in musical theatre, originating iconic roles such as Georges Seurat in Sunday in the Park...
, Griffin Dunne
Griffin Dunne
-Personal life:Dunne was born Thomas Griffin Dunne in New York City, New York, the son of Ellen Beatriz Dunne and Dominick Dunne. His mother founded the victims' rights organization Justice for Homicide Victims and his father was a producer, writer, and actor...
, Sir Howard Stringer, Mike Novogratz, Michael Price
Michael Price
Michael F. Price is a value investor and fund manager in Far Hills, New Jersey.-Career:He began his career in 1973 when he joined Max Heine at Mutual Series. In 1982, he became a full partner and when Heine died in 1988, became the president and chairman. In 1996, Mutual Series was merged into...
, Billy Baldwin
Billy Baldwin
Billy Baldwin may refer to:*Billy Baldwin *William Baldwin, American actor*Bill Baldwin, science fiction author*Bill Baldwin , English footballer/soccer player-See also:*William Baldwin...
, Gavin de Becker
Gavin de Becker
Gavin de Becker is a specialist in security issues, primarily for governments, large corporations, and celebrities.-Career:...
, Liza Chasin
Liza Chasin
Liza Chasin is an American film producer. She is the president of the American production arm of Working Title Films.-Biography:Liza Chasin is a graduate of NYU Film School. Prior to joining Working Title Films Chasin worked for several years in various production capacities in New York-based...
, and Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons
-External links:** * * * * * * from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum* *...
. The organization has received major support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation that provides grants to not-for-profit organizations. It was created in 1964 by David Packard and his wife Lucile Salter Packard. Following David Packard's death in 1996, the Foundation became the beneficiary of part of his estate...
, The Richard Goldman
Richard Goldman
Richard N. Goldman was an American philanthropist who co-founded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1990 with his wife, Rhoda Goldman...
Foundation and the Soros Foundation
Soros Foundation
A Soros Foundation is one of a network of national foundations, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, which fund volunteer socio-political activity, created by George Soros, international financier and self-proclaimed philanthropist, and coordinated since early 1994 by a management team called the...
, among many others.
Cooley resigned as co-CEO of The Center to Prevent Youth Violence in 2004, but remains an active member of the Board of Trustees.
Photography
In 1999, Cooley co-authored a photo essay book with Kate SpadeKate Spade
Kate Brosnahan Spade is the co-founder and namesake of the designer brand, Kate Spade New York .- Early life and beginnings :...
Fashions co-founder Andy Spade
Andy Spade
Andy Spade is the co-founder of Partners & Spade, along with Anthony Sperduti. He started his career in advertising working on brands such as Coca-Cola, Lexus, and Paul Stuart. In 1993, with his wife Kate Spade, he founded the fashion and lifestyle brands Kate Spade and Jack Spade. and was...
entitled Public Love, published by Chronicle Books
Chronicle Books
Chronicle Books is a San Francisco-based American publisher of books for adults and children.The company was established in 1968 by Phelps Dewey, an executive with Chronicle Publishing Company, then-publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1999 it was bought by Nion McEvoy, great-grandson of...
. The book documented first person accounts of amorous acts conducted in public spaces, juxtaposed with Cooley's photographs of the spaces when empty. Paper Magazine's review of the book said: "The subjects' plain words convey the spontaneity of desire, as well as the apprehension and fear (of getting caught, perhaps, but sometimes of one's partner) inherent in an act that blurs the boundary between public and private."
Cooley's editorial photography has been published in The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Independent and other newspapers and magazines in the US and the UK.
Film
In 2004, Cooley wrote and directed his first film, Pol Pot's Birthday, a short satirical comedy which premiered at the Sundance Film FestivalSundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
, won numerous Best Film awards at festivals worldwide, and is included in the Sundance Collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art. The film was also featured in American Cinematographer
American Cinematographer
American Cinematographer is a monthly magazine published by the American Society of Cinematographers.American Cinematographer focuses on the art and craft of cinematography, going behind the scenes on domestic and international productions of all shapes and sizes...
magazine for its evocative use of digital video
Digital video
Digital video is a type of digital recording system that works by using a digital rather than an analog video signal.The terms camera, video camera, and camcorder are used interchangeably in this article.- History :...
. The film's style of awkward comedy has often been compared to the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
television series "The Office
The Office
The Office is a popular mockumentary/situation comedy TV show that was first made in the UK and has now been re-made in many other countries, with overall viewership in the hundreds of millions worldwide. The original version of The Office was created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. It...
".
In 2005, Cooley directed a stylized short documentary, Dimmer, about a gang of blind
Blindness
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
teenagers who roam the streets of the bleak industrial neighborhoods of Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
. Featuring a score by the band Interpol
Interpol (band)
Interpol is an American indie rock and post-punk revival band from New York City. Formed in 1997, the band's original line-up consisted of Paul Banks , Daniel Kessler , Carlos Dengler and Greg Drudy . Drudy left the band in 2000 and was replaced by Sam Fogarino...
, Dimmer premiered at the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
, was a finalist for the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
, and won numerous international Best Film awards as well as being exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art and included in its Sundance Collection.
Cooley's first feature film was the comedy Patriotville (renamed Taking Chances by Lions Gate Entertainment), featuring Justin Long
Justin Long
Justin Jacob Long is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles in the Hollywood films Galaxy Quest, Jeepers Creepers, Dodgeball, Live Free or Die Hard, He's Just Not That into You, Drag Me to Hell, and Youth in Revolt, and his personification of a Mac in Apple's "Get a...
, Rob Corddry
Rob Corddry
Robert William "Rob" Corddry is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his work as a former correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and for his starring role in the comedy film Hot Tub Time Machine...
, Nick Offerman
Nick Offerman
Nick Offerman is an American actor best known for his role as Ron Swanson in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. He is also a skilled woodworker.-Early life and career:...
, Keir O'Donnell
Keir O'Donnell
Keir O'Donnell is an Australian actor best known for his roles in the comedy films Wedding Crashers and Paul Blart: Mall Cop...
and Emmanuelle Chriqui
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Emmanuelle Sophie Anne Chriqui is a Canadian film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her role on HBO's Entourage as Sloan McQuewick, as well as the love interest of Adam Sandler in the movie You Don't Mess with the Zohan...
. The film, a satirical take on greed and corruption in small town America, was shot in South Carolina
South Carolina
South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...
and West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
and was released by Lions Gate Entertainment
Lions Gate Entertainment
Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation is a North American entertainment company. The company was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1997, and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California...
in 2009.
Cooley's films have won over 20 Best Film and other honors, and he has been profiled in a number of magazines, such as The Fader http://www.thefader.com/, Create, and RES Magazine. He was named one of "10 Filmmakers to Watch" by Screen International and was selected for the "RES Magazine 10 Top Talents" issue in 2006.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 2004 in film The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol... |
Pol Pot's Birthday | Writer, Director Film director A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:... , producer |
| 2005 2005 in film - Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005... |
Dimmer Dimmer Dimmers are devices used to vary the brightness of a light. By decreasing or increasing the RMS voltage and, hence, the mean power to the lamp, it is possible to vary the intensity of the light output... |
Director, Producer |
| 2008 2008 in film This is a list of all major films made in 2008.-Highest-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2008... |
Goodbye Canarsie | Associate Producer |
| 2009 2009 in film The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note... |
Patriotville aka Taking Chances | Writer, Director |
Source: IMDB
Film Awards
Sundance Film Festival -- Premiere (2 films)Worldwide Short Film Festival (Toronto) -- Best Film
Curtas Vila Do Cordo Festival (Portugal) -- Best Short Documentary
Seattle One Reel Festival -- Best Film
Asian American Film Festival -- Best Short Film
Nashville Film Festival -- Special Mention
Aspen Film Festival -- Silver Prize
NY Museum of Modern Art -- Sundance Collection
Hammer Museum LA -- Special Exhibition
RESfest -- Best Film
RESfest -- Special Jury Prize
RiverRun Festival -- Best Documentary Short
Dubrovnik Film Festival (Croatia) -- Best Short Film
Newport Beach Film festival -- Best Screenplay
Filmstock Festival (UK) -- Best Film
Filmstock Festival (UK) -- Best Concept
Grenada Film Festival (Spain) - Best Cinematography
Silverlake Film Festival -- Festival Director’s Prize
St. Louis Film Festival -- Best Short Film
2006 Academy Awards -- Short Documentary Finalist
Source: Footnotes
External links
- IMDB profile
- www.talmagecooley.com
- CPYV Website
- Dimmer entry on Sundance Channel
- Talmage Cooley in RES
- http://www.ifc.com/blogs/rooftopfilms/2009/02/what-was-your-inspiration-the.php
- http://www.amazon.com/dp/0811821536
- http://www.amazon.com/dp/1401309542
- http://efilmcritic.com/feature.php?feature=2771
- http://www.hollywillis.com/writing/3newdirectors.pdf
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBoxa2KNxNY
- http://www.matadorrecords.com/interpol/