# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthew-cooke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:13:00.302Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthew-cooke"
name: "Matthew Cooke"
slug: "matthew-cooke"
description: "Matthew Cooke is the writer-director of How to Make Money Selling Drugs, a documentary film which criticizes the war on drugs in the United States, and Survivors Guide to Prison, about the prison system. Cooke also often serves as his own narrator, editor, cinematographer and visual effects artist. Cooke was the producer and editor of Amy Berg's Oscar–nominated documentary Deliver Us from Evil, his first feature film, and writer, director, editor and actor on Fuel TV's Stupidface. He produced Adrian Grenier's 2010 HBO documentary Teenage Paparazzo which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Cooke also contributed editing, motion graphics and cinematography work to the picture. He is producing American Race, an upcoming documentary directed by Amy Berg, who Cooke previously worked with on Deliver Us from Evil."
tagline: "American filmmaker"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1973"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.817816000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2288785/"
    handle:    "nm2288785"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.matthewcooke.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "ماثيو كوكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "ماثيو كوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Cooke_(filmmaker)"
    title: "Matthew Cooke (filmmaker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA%DA%BE%DB%8C%D9%88_%DA%A9%D9%88%DA%A9_(%D9%81%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2)"
    title: "میتھیو کوک (فلم ساز)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6790337"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/949244"
    title: "Matthew Cooke"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations