Tommy Yacoe is a Portland-based filmmaker and writer.

Once hailed by an LA producer as "The best PA in the United States", he ditched the last two weeks of undergraduate college to screen a short film he directed at closing weekend of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.  Since then, he's directed films all over the world from Universal Studios Hollywood to rural Tanzania to the Swiss Alps, earning an Emmy nomination, numerous awards, and garnering millions of views online.