Person

Cole Bacani

Directing · Born 1997-12-10 · Stamford, Connecticut, USA

Cole Bacani is a Filipino-American director, writer, and director of photography. He was born on December 10, 1997 in Stamford, Connecticut; but he spent most of his life in the Chicago suburbs. Cole is an alumni of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. In 2016, he received a Crystal Pillar of Excellence for his cinematography from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Cole focuses on painfully awkward and brutally honest coming-of-age stories.

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  House Rules

  Director of Photography

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  A Beautiful Nightmare

  Key Grip

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  Like You Said You'd Be

  Director

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  12 Days of Christmas

  Second Assistant Camera

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  A Reason To

  Director

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  I Never Picked Cotton

  Director

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  Everything Stays

  Director

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  In Another Place

  Cinematography

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  Sex, Baseball, and All Pussibilities

  Director of Photography

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  Boléro

  Second Assistant Camera

• 2025Sex, Baseball, and All PussibilitiesDirector of Photography
• 2023House RulesDirector of Photography
• 2022A Reason ToDirector
• 2021Everything StaysDirector
• 202012 Days of ChristmasSecond Assistant Camera
• 2020AfterimagesDirector
• 2020Like You Said You'd BeDirector
• 2020Grapefruit & Heat Death!Cinematography
• 2019In Another PlaceCinematography
• 2019I Never Picked CottonDirector
• 2019BoléroSecond Assistant Camera
• 2019A Beautiful NightmareKey Grip