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Cory Finley

Nascimento : , St. Louis, Missouri, USA

História

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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Filmes

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.

Má Educação

Director

Má Educação se passa em Long Island, 2002. Frank Tassone trabalha como superintendente de um colégio, gozando de imenso prestígio junto aos professores, pais e alunos. Um dia, ao ser entrevistado pela adolescente Rachel para o jornal do colégio, ele a incentiva a sempre inserir sua assinatura própria em qualquer matéria que faça, por menor que seja. Inspirada pela conversa, ela resolve investigar uma custosa empreitada que está prestes a acontecer, o projeto Skywalk, e acaba descobrindo uma série de fraudes na contabilidade da escola feitas pelo próprio Frank.

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.

Puro-Sangue

Writer

Duas meninas adolescentes no subúrbio de Connecticut se reconectam numa amizade improvável após anos distantes. No processo, elas aprendem que nenhuma das duas é o que aparenta ser - e que um assassinato pode resolver ambos os seus problemas.

Puro-Sangue

Director

Burning Rainbow Farm

Screenplay

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