WHO
“T Cooper is our new Don DeLillo.” —Alexander Chee
T Cooper is an author, television writer, journalist, and filmmaker whose groundbreaking work has been pushing boundaries both in print and on screen for 20 years. He currently serves as Executive Producer and Writer on The Blacklist (NBC), and is the author of nine books, including two bestselling novels. Cooper’s feature documentary Man Made (2019) has screened at more than 80 film festivals worldwide, winning fourteen Best Documentary Jury and Audience Awards—in addition to a Sundance Institute Grant (the film is currently available for streaming on Amazon Prime). Cooper is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, and one-half of Holler Beach Productions.
MAN MADE
A feature documentary film
Directed, Produced, and Filmed by T Cooper
“Man Made upends the traditional documentary gaze… [and] resists the urge to turn the bodybuilders’ stories into narratives of simple, complete self-actualization; instead, it offers a testament to individual moments of joy—transformative in themselves.”
— The New Yorker
“Man Made offers a complex, nuanced view [of the trans experience], in a way that does a lot of heavy lifting for a small film.”
— CNN
“The Best LGBTQ Documentaries of 2018… Fascinating.”
— The Advocate
“A rare sort of film.”
— The Daily Beast
FEATURED WRITING by T Cooper
