Lenny Cooke

dir. Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie / USA 2012 / 88’

American Docs

American Docs Audience Award Winner, Before You Know It, Big Easy Express, Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, Fall and Winter, Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia, Lenny Cooke, Northern Light, Off Label, Our Nixon, The Armstrong Lie

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Ben & Joshua Safdie

Ben and Joshua Safdie are independent NY filmmakers who showed an early interest in cinema after their father bought them a camera. While attending Boston University, they founded Red Bucket Films with a group of friends. The brothers usually work together on directing, screenwriting, cinematography, production and even acting. They jointly produced the feature-length film Go Get Some Rosemary (2009). Lenny Cooke is their feature-length documentary debut.

Selected filmography

2005 The Adventures of Slaters’s Friend (kr. m. / short)

2009 Go Get Some Rosemary

2012 Lenny Cooke (dok. / doc.)

2012 The Black Balloon (kr. m. / short)