Matthew Cooke (born February 28, 1973) is the writer-director of How to Make Money Selling Drugs, a documentary film which criticizes the war on drugs in the United States, and Survivors Guide to Prison, about the prison system.
Cooke also often serves as his own narrator, editor, cinematographer and visual effects artist.
He produced Adrian Grenier's 2010 HBO documentary Teenage Paparazzo which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
He is producing American Race, an upcoming documentary directed by Amy Berg, who Cooke previously worked with on Deliver Us from Evil.
Cooke graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in film from Pitzer College in 1996.