Nationality American Role Executive producer Name Jeremy Coon | Years active 2000–present Occupation Film producer | |
Nominations Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature Movies Napoleon Dynamite, Raiders!: The Story of the Gre, The Sasquatch Gang, Peluca, Thunder Broke The Heavens Similar People Tim Skousen, Jared Hess, Chris Wyatt, Sean Covel, Jory Weitz | ||
Education Brigham Young University | ||
Jeremy Coon (born 1979) is an American executive producer and editor of the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite, a cult hit made on a $400,000 budget that has earned more than $44 million since its release.
Coon attended film school at Brigham Young University and graduated in 1997 from Lloyd V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas.
He was friends at Brigham Young with fellow film student Jared Hess, where he was told of Hess' nascent screenplay for Dynamite and agreed to raise the money to produce the film. On the opening day of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, Coon sold the film to Fox Searchlight Pictures for $3.2 million.
After a 22-day shoot in Preston, Idaho, Coon edited the film during a nine-day cram session using Apple Final Cut Pro software for the first time. "We spent about a year assembling our crew -- 95 percent were friends from the BYU post department," he told the Apple publication Pro. "People would come by to check on me and I didn’t even know what time of day it was."