Jesse Cook III is an award-winning filmmaker local to the New England area. Starting his career in 2013 after graduating from Boston University’s Center for Digital Arts.

As an independent filmmaker, Jesse is an accomplished writer-director for NEAPOLITAN, for which he won awards for Best Original Screenplay at the Rome Independent Film Awards and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the Colorado International Film Festival. For his sophomore film, PEPPERMINT, he was a two-time nominee for Best Screenplay and Best Director at the London Independent Film Festival, and was a top-20 quarterfinalist at the prestigious Golden Script Competition in Glasgow, Scotland; the film was also a multi-time nominee for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, and Best Score, as well as award-winning performances throughout the ensemble cast from various domestic and international film festivals.

His latest film, LOOM, is an exploration of grief and the journey for closure as we age into a future with expansive tech and communication that is both innately connected yet barren of contact.