Cole Bacani

Cole Bacani

Birth : 1997-12-10, Stamford, Connecticut, USA

History

Cole Bacani is a Filipino-American director, writer, and director of photography. He was born on December 10, 1997 in Stamford, Connecticut; but he spent most of his life in the Chicago suburbs. Cole is an alumni of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. In 2016, he received a Crystal Pillar of Excellence for his cinematography from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Cole focuses on painfully awkward and brutally honest coming-of-age stories.

Profile

Cole Bacani

Movies

Everything Stays
Producer
Gabe, a Filipino-American high school senior, has led his younger cousins through childhood; but as the summer after graduation winds down, his cousins have one last chance to tie him down in Illinois, forcing Gabe to decide what's more important: his family or his future?
Everything Stays
Writer
Gabe, a Filipino-American high school senior, has led his younger cousins through childhood; but as the summer after graduation winds down, his cousins have one last chance to tie him down in Illinois, forcing Gabe to decide what's more important: his family or his future?
Everything Stays
Director
Gabe, a Filipino-American high school senior, has led his younger cousins through childhood; but as the summer after graduation winds down, his cousins have one last chance to tie him down in Illinois, forcing Gabe to decide what's more important: his family or his future?
12 Days of Christmas
Second Assistant Camera
Childhood friends Amy and Steve come home from their first semester of college for a relaxed winter break, but must navigate turbulent reunions, unspoken romance, and even an unplanned pregnancy. There's no place like home for the holidays!
Like You Said You'd Be
Producer
After her latest project is canceled due to circumstances out of her control, Nicole searches for an escape from her defeat.
Like You Said You'd Be
Cinematography
After her latest project is canceled due to circumstances out of her control, Nicole searches for an escape from her defeat.
Like You Said You'd Be
Writer
After her latest project is canceled due to circumstances out of her control, Nicole searches for an escape from her defeat.
Like You Said You'd Be
Director
After her latest project is canceled due to circumstances out of her control, Nicole searches for an escape from her defeat.
Afterimages
Director
In a world where your five most impactful memories print as Polaroids from your mouth upon death, Sam and her mother, Ida, struggle to reconnect after Sam's grandfather dies.
Grapefruit & Heat Death!
Cinematography
An astronomy lesson on the scope of the universe by an impassioned substitute teacher sends a pair of high schoolers on an odyssey deep into the mind and out to the galaxies.
In Another Place
Cinematography
With no final destination in sight, a couple takes a leave-it-all-behind road trip up north. Their perspectives on life clash as their relationship unravels.
I Never Picked Cotton
Director
Yolanda Morgan recalls her experiences with racism the impact it has had on her.
Boléro
Second Assistant Camera
In a dystopian future where telepaths are deployed at the service of a militant regime, a mute girl takes revenge on her father's killer while simultaneously helping the resistance.
House Rules
Director of Photography
An Asian American teenage girl, dying to lose her virginity, breaks some house rules (among other things) in order to get what she wants.