BEN COOPER

Ben Cooper is a filmmaker, archival producer, and documentary film worker based in New York City.

As an archival producer, associate producer, researcher, and assistant editor, Ben has worked on numerous documentary projects, including from Story Syndicate, Jigsaw Productions, Insignia Films, Stick Figure Productions, and Cabin Creek Films, with distribution from HBO, PBS, Netflix, Paramount+, Apple Original Films, Amazon, The History Channel, and more. He has also worked as a researcher on historical books from Simon & Schuster and Macmillan, as well as on personal archiving projects for individuals.

Under the Egg White Films banner, he produces short experimental works, often focused on inscrutable personalities, long strange trips, and archival rabbit holes. His editing portfolio includes scripted, nonfiction, and experimental work and has been featured in the American Documentary and Animation Film Festival and New York Latino Film Festival, among others. Ben is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he double-majored in Film & Television and American History, and is a member of the Archival Producers Alliance and the Writers Guild of America East.

He lives in Brooklyn with his spouse, the film critic and author Payton McCarty-Simas, and their cat, Shirley Jackson.