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Cory Finley

Nacimiento : , St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Historia

Cory Finley is a St. Louis-born, Brooklyn-based screenwriter, playwright, and director. Finley wrote and directed the black comedy film Thoroughbreds, a feature film adapted from his play of the same name which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2017. He also directed the true crime dramedy film Bad Education starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney, which premiered on HBO and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie in 2020. He is a member of the Obie-winning Youngblood playwrights group at Ensemble Studio Theater, has received a commission from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation for playwriting, and was the inaugural recipient of the Gurney Playwrights Fund for his play The Feast at The Flea Theater.

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Landscape with Invisible Hand

Writer

Two teenagers come up with a plan to ensure their families' futures when an occupying alien race's promise of economic prosperity leaves most of humanity impoverished and desperate.

Landscape with Invisible Hand

Director

Two teenagers come up with a plan to ensure their families' futures when an occupying alien race's promise of economic prosperity leaves most of humanity impoverished and desperate.

La estafa (Bad Education)

Director

Frank Tassone, uno de los superintendentes más destacados del distrito escolar de Roslyn en Nueva York se desvive a diario para que la educación de sus alumnos sea la mejor. Pero de forma paralela, este se lucra con dinero público para llevar una vida llena de lujos. Así, Tassone y su personal, amigos y familiares, se convierten en los principales sospechosos del mayor escándalo de malversación de fondos ocurrido en una escuela pública de toda la historia de los Estados Unidos.

Sauna

Story

An anxious and ungainly teenage boy struggles against bullies, puberty, and his fears of mortality when his parents send him to a summer water polo camp.

Purasangre

Writer

Dos chicas adolescentes de Connecticut reavivan su amistad después de años separadas. En el proceso, aprenden que no todo es lo que parece y que un asesinato solucionaría sus problemas.

Purasangre

Director

Dos chicas adolescentes de Connecticut reavivan su amistad después de años separadas. En el proceso, aprenden que no todo es lo que parece y que un asesinato solucionaría sus problemas.

Burning Rainbow Farm

Screenplay

A pair of marijuana advocates try to hold their own against the FBI in a brutal five-day standoff.