Peter McCoubrey makes films. He's been doing it since art school at Pratt in Brooklyn, first through music videos that caught the attention of MTV, Pitchfork, the New York Times, and Entertainment Weekly, then through commercials and branded work for Adidas, American Express, Tommy Hilfiger, Apple, and the NBA. Along the way, he collaborated with Spike Jonze on the Beastie Boys' final video, helped launch AXE in China with a series of branded shorts, and directed MTV/AXE's The Gamekillers, a hybrid comedy series that picked up Cannes Lions and One Show awards. He directed several episodes over the two season run of Apple TV's Dear…, RJ Cutler's docu-series about iconic cultural figures.

But the work he keeps coming back to is stranger. The Grey Matter, a horror comedy short starring Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear, Fantastic Four), has racked up over 17 million views and premiered on Shudder, as well as ALTER, Vimeo Staff Picks, and more. His other short films Therefore I Am, Progress Bar, and Fun, Gus! have screened at festivals around the world and landed on DUST, Short of the Week, io9, and beyond. His shorts tend toward genre, tend toward weird, and tend to find an audience.

He's based in Los Angeles, where he's developing his first features.