Jacob Cooney
An award-winning filmmaker, Jacob most recently directed the feature films "Drowning in Secrets" for MarVista Entertainment/Lifetime, "The Junkyard Dogs" for Verdi Productions/VMI, "Merry Ex-Mas" for Verdi Prouductions/VMI, and the short film "Crystal Ball" for Uncork'd Entertainment's newest horror anthology "Tales from the Other Side".
Previous directing credits include the feature films "Pitching Tents" for Meritage Pictures (released theatrically in 2017); "Blood Circus" for Gravitas Ventures; "The Assault" for Grindstone Entertainment/Lionsgate; "Alpha House" for Broken Films; "Fierce Friend" for Wonder Entertainment; television pilots "Harries Way" for Lawrence/Long Productions and "Rehab for Rejects" for Sledgehammer Films; and short films "The Frolic" (Cannes Film Festival selection), "Rocco", "Bedlam", and "The War of Game".
Jacob's films have garnered much praise and have been official selections in film festivals such as Cannes Film Festival, LA International Film Festival, Ain't It Cool News - Saturday Shorts, Shriekfest, Dead by Dawn, Dances with Films, World Horror Convention, FantasyCon, Eerie Horror Fest, Beverly Hills Film Festival, Dreadit Film Fest, Fear Fete Film Festival, Las Vegas Film Festival and many others.
Writing credits include the films "The Book of Alan" for Pantheon Entertainment; "The Banishing" for Haven Entertainment; "Isle of the Dead" for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment; "Secrets by the Shore" for MarVista Entertainment/Lifetime; "The Junkyard Dogs" for Verdi Productions; "Titanic 666" for Tubi; "Apocalypse Pompeii", "Age of Tomorrow", "Flight 42, "Flight 666" and "Bitten" for the SyFy Channel; "Blue Line" for Lionsgate Entertainment; "Alpha House" for Broken Films; "Want" for State Street Pictures; "Illuminating Preston" for Zeeworks Entertainment; and the television pilot "The Lakes" for Lionsgate Television.
Producing credits include "Alarmed" for Tubi, "Secrets at the Museum" and "Deadly Destination" for Lifetime, "SantaMan" for Gravitas Ventures, and "You are my Home" for Netflix.
Movies
Follows a dog who is a master escape artist, who must team up with his puppy pals to prevent their block from being robbed.
3.6
- Mar 10, 2014
- English
When two freshmen pledges are accepted into the biggest party frat on campus, they think they have it all. That is, until the assistant dean forces the Alphas to share their house with a sorority or face expulsion from school. Not wanting to see their lifelong dream of becoming Alphas destroyed, the pledges convince the other members of the house to take back what's theirs, waging an epic battle of the sexes to fight for their right to party.