Phil Cooke, President and CEO of Cooke Pictures in Santa Monica, California, has produced programming in more than 35 countries, and his work has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. Selected projects from Cooke Pictures have been placed in the permanent archive on the History of Broadcasting at the Newhouse School of Communication at Syracuse University, representing landmark work in religious and inspirational broadcasting.

As a media consultant and producer, he has worked with many of the largest and most effective churches and media ministries in the United States, and has complied a lifetime of teaching, training, and expertise in his highly regarded book “Successful Christian Television: Make Your Media Ministry a Reality” available at bookstores nationwide.

Possibly the only working producer in Hollywood with a Ph.D. in Theology, Dr. Cooke speaks at many workshops, seminars, and conferences on media, and has recently taught directing techniques as far away as Russia, and Central and South America. He is also a founding partner in the successful television commercial company “Thomas/Winter/Cooke” who’s commercial clients include Verizon, Home Depot, McDonalds, The Paris Hotel, Walgreen’s, Grey Healthcare, and many more. Clio award winning producer Mark Thomas, and motion picture producer Ralph Winter (Star Trek, X-Men, X2) are also partners in this innovative company.

Phil publishes the monthly e-mail newsletter, “Ideas for Real Change” which is an in-demand resource for faith based media professionals around the world. He also writes an influential blog at philcooke.com. The Cooke Pictures website is cookepictures.com.