Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘The Pearl Comb’ director Ali Cook on myth, mermaids, and the Oscar shortlist. The writer-director joins our Gold Derby "Making Of ...

The Little Mermaid” it is not. “The Pearl Comb,” the haunting, occasionally chilling, deftly polemical directorial debut of British actor and writer Ali Cook, is a short film set in an English coastal ...

EXCLUSIVE: Gersh has signed filmmaker Ali Cook for representation. Cook’s latest short, The Pearl Comb, has been one of the most decorated on the international circuit of late, earning over 70 awards.

The writer-director reflects on his short film’s unlikely rise through the festival circuit, the challenge of creating a believable mermaid, and the real-world history that anchors its fantasy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Ali Cook set out to make "The Pearl Comb," he never imagined the fantasy-tinged period short would end up among the year’s ...