Jeremy Coon

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name = Jeremy Coon

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occupation = Film producer
nationality = American

Jeremy Coon was the executive producer and editor of the 2004 film "Napoleon Dynamite", which was reputedly made on a $400,000 budget and earned over $44 million Fact|date=February 2007.

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."

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