Dave Cote

Dave Cote works as both an actor and a film director, and his leading roles include the films The Devil's Tomb, Once Upon a Mattress, Killer Bash (2005) and Darkest Hour. He also played principal parts on television and in film, among them Smallville, Dead Zone, Watchmen and Supernatural. He moved into directing with Windup, a feature with a cast of fifty that was shot in over forty locations and billed Mel Tuck, John Read, Alex Bruhanski, Lurene Music and Cote, made on a budget under $10,000. In 2007, Cote showed Windup at the Cannes Film Festival, hoping to sell it and to find backers for Inertia and Model Culture; Gordy Hoffman reviewed Inertia, and a distribution deal with Rogue Arts covered Model Culture and later Inertia too. Cote produced a documentary, Don't Tell My Agent!!!, featuring Beyonce, Coolio and Karl Lagerfeld. He studied at Douglas College and Simon Fraser University.