"If somebody thinks you're cool, you are cool.  If somebody doubts you're cool, you say, "Hey, I'm cool," and if they still don’t believe you, they're just inherently uncool and you should avoid them altogether.  It's almost like a retarded Descartes -- I'm cool, therefore I am... cool.  You dig?"

Written and directed by Dan Tobin, THE COOL is a short film about being cool, hence the name.  Farley (Jason Dugre) desperately wants to be cool, but who even knows what that means?  Trey Smooth (Daryl C. Brown) does.  As a professional cool guy, it's his job to know things like that.  So Farley enlists Trey's help in his makeover from dork to not-dork.  As Trey teaches Farley how to be cool, Farley starts to question what he’s learning, as well as the cool itself.  His journey frames this deadpan satire of nightlife and the concept of cool.  Produced by Dan Tobin and Jason Dugre, THE COOL is destined to become a cult classic among their friends and family.

The electronic music in the film was composed and performed by rusuDen, a Kentucky-based artist so talented that we have no doubt he'll become as big as he wants to be.  The lone acoustic song heard in the film is written and performed by Sara Shansky, a Rhode Island rocker with tunes so catchy she's similarly bound for greatness.

Please click around to "learn" more about the film... and about the Cool. Here's how:

THE FILM

This main page here with general information about the film itself.

NOTES

An essay on the process of producing a short film.

CAST

Photos and credits of the astoundingly talented actors in "The Cool."

CREW 

A full listing of the entire staff and crew who made "The Cool" possible.