 Cooper was a member of the Harvard Square Script Writers, a group of writers who work-shopped their screenplays.It was while a member of this group that he came across a script by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen called "Long Distance", which he rewrote.While Cooper was accepted into the Boston University Masters of Fine Arts program in film production, he chose to drop out and produce "Long Distance" through his company Lascaux Pictures, now known as Lascaux Media, instead of completing his MFA by producing a thesis film.