Cooper Raiff

Cooper Raiff is a filmmaker-actor from Dallas, Texas, now based in Los Angeles. His innovative drama series Hal & Harper, starring Lili Reinhart, Mark Ruffalo and Raiff himself, is now streaming on Mubi. His debut feature, Shithouse, had its world premiere at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Feature, and his second film, Cha Cha Real Smooth, starring Raiff, Dakota Johnson, Vanessa Burghardt and Raúl Castillo, premiered at Sundance in 2022.

Talks

Three Great Things: Cooper Raiff

By Cooper Raiff | November 24, 2025

Three Great Things: Cooper Raiff

The writer-director-star of Hal & Harper, which is now streaming on Mubi, on the romantics, John Dufresne and Zion National Park.

The People in Shithouse

By Cooper Raiff | March 30, 2020

The People in Shithouse

23-year-old filmmaker-actor Cooper Raiff on the real folks behind his debut feature, which won the SXSW Grand Jury Award last week.