COOP COOPER

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<p>Coop Cooper, AKA &ldquo;The Small Town Critic,&rdquo; 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&nbsp;<em>Clarksdale Press Register</em><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: normal; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">, operates his movie-related website <a href="http://www.smalltowncritic.com/">S</a></span><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; color: #000080; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" lang="zxx"><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: underline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: normal; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><a href="http://www.smalltowncritic.com/">malltowncritic.com</a></span></span></span></span><span style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-style: normal; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">, 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.</span></p>

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