Contrary to popular belief, the seaweed isn’t always greener in somebody else’s lake. In the case of Ali Cook’s Oscar-shortlisted short film The Pearl Comb, the county of Cornwall is flourishing in ...

EXCLUSIVE: One of this year’s crop of shortlisted projects in the Short Film category has been exclusively released on Disney+ in Europe. The Pearl Comb is now on the Disney platform and the streaming ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

EXCLUSIVE: One of this year's crop of shortlisted projects in the Short Film category has been exclusively released on Disney+ in Europe. The Pearl Comb is now on the Disney platform and the streaming ...

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.