About Coop & Contact Info

COOP COOPER is an accomplished film critic, instructor, screenwriter and filmmaker. Welcome to the site where Coop posts his movie/DVD reviews (published in the “Opinion” section of the Clarksdale Press Register) and posts information about his workshops, film projects, local film festivals/events and all things film-related.

He’s also the guy in the pic above looking soulfully into a camera monitor.

Coop is originally from Clarksdale, Mississippi and is a Southerner at heart. He graduated from Southern Methodist University with a B.F.A in Cinema, and received his Masters in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Hollywood.

Below is Coop’s Professional “Press Release” Bio…

PROFESSIONAL BIO:

883 Coop Cooper, AKA “The Small Town Critic,” has the versatility of a Swiss Army knife when it comes to writing in the motion picture industry. After earning his BFA in Cinema at Southern Methodist University and an MFA in Screenwriting at the American Film Institute in Hollywood, he collaborated with Academy Award-winning director Seth Winston on a Civil War-themed screenwriting project. He then applied his newly acquired skills to writing script coverage, movie reviews, entertainment-related articles and various screenwriting projects. After the events of 9/11, he decided to earn his Secondary Teaching Certificate and taught English, writing and screenwriting at North Hollywood High School for five years. Coop now lives in his native hometown of Clarksdale, Mississippi where he writes movie reviews for the Clarksdale Press Register, operates his movie-related website Smalltowncritic.com, aids/promotes film crews seeking to shoot feature films in in the Mississippi Delta, teaches seminars, does location scouting, works on about a dozen screenwriting/film projects at a time and still manages to watch an average of 2 movies per day.