Drea Cooper

History

Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper’s critically acclaimed Netflix Original Documentary series, Flint Town earned nominations from Critics Choice Awards and IDA. Their latest film, Fire In Paradise was awarded both an Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow award and was shortlisted for an Academy Award.

Movies

Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets
Director
It was the perfect storm. A global pandemic. An app aspiring to democratize trading. A group of Reddit users stuck at home with stimulus dollars to burn. And a video game company on its last legs. DIAMOND HANDS is the incredible true story of how an army of retail traders rallied around GameStop to rock our financial system. This is the legend of r/WallStreetBets.
Fellini Forward
Director
Investigating the last years of the famous filmmaker in Rome, combining the history of Italian cinema with new production techniques and going behind the scenes on the filmmaking process.
Fire in Paradise
Executive Producer
In this documentary, survivors recall the catastrophic 2018 Camp Fire, which razed the town of Paradise and became California’s deadliest wildfire.
Fire in Paradise
Editor
In this documentary, survivors recall the catastrophic 2018 Camp Fire, which razed the town of Paradise and became California’s deadliest wildfire.
Fire in Paradise
Director
In this documentary, survivors recall the catastrophic 2018 Camp Fire, which razed the town of Paradise and became California’s deadliest wildfire.
Kish
Director
'KISH' tells the story of a blind man who taught himself to see with sound in order to survive in a visual world.
T-Rex
Director
T-Rex is an intimate coming-of-age story about a new kind of American heroine. For the first time, women’s boxing is included in the 2012 Olympics. Fighting for gold is 17-year-old Claressa “T-Rex” Shields. From the streets of Flint, Michigan, Claressa is undefeated and utterly confident. Her fierceness extends beyond the ring. She protects her family at any cost, even when their instability and addictions threaten to derail her dream. As she gets closer to her dream her relationships with her coach and her family get more complicated. But Claressa is determined. She desperately wants to take her family to a better, safer place and winning gold could be her only chance.
Aquadettes
Co-Director
A group of elderly swimmers from a retirement community regularly practices routines and water stunts to maintain health and strength.
Flint Strong
Executive Producer
Flint Strong tells the true story of 17-year-old Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, a Flint, Michigan native whose dreams of becoming the first woman in history to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing were realized at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Shields won a second gold medal in women’s middleweight boxing.