Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Contrary to popular belief, the seaweed isn’t always greener in somebody else’s lake. In the case of Ali Cook’s Oscar-shortlisted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beatie Edney in 'The Pearl Comb.' Photo Courtesy of Ali Cook. Beatie Edney in 'The Pearl Comb.' Photo Courtesy of Ali Cook. “The Pearl Comb,” starring Beatie Edney, is an award-winning British short ...

Ali Cook's The Pearl Comb arrives at a moment when genre filmmaking feels increasingly bloated, reminding audiences that horror, intelligent horror, still has the capacity to be intimate, layered, and ...

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.