Matthew Cooke

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. In 2010 Cooke was Producer-Editor for the critically acclaimed HBO Documentary "Teenage Paparazzo". In 2013 Cooke wrote, directed, and narrated "How To Make Money Selling Drugs.” And in 2014 Cooke and Emmy Award Winning Producer Steve DeVore began "Survivors Guide to Prison,” released in 2019.