Henry Corra
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November 11, 1955 United States |
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Henry John Corra (born November 11, 1955) is an American documentary filmmaker and commercial director.
Henry Corra is a filmmaker and Sundance Institute Fellow, best known for pioneering what he calls living cinema.
Corra’s films have been exhibited worldwide in theatrical venues and broadcast by outlets such as HBO, Showtime, LOGO, CBS, PBS, VH1, Arte and Channel 4. His work has also been shown in museum and cultural venues internationally including MoMA, The Louvre, and the National Gallery of Art. He has also done episodic TV projects for broadcasters including MTV, VH1, Bravo, and The Sundance Channel.
In addition to his film work, Corra has worked on campaigns for brands as diverse as Mercedes-Benz USA, Accenture, Gateway Computers, Procter & Gamble, SC Johnson, Reebok, McDonald's and Ford. He is also known for memorable advocacy campaigns, tackling issues including smoking (NYC, Austin) and drunk driving (Texas). Currently he's in post-production on his latest feature, Farewell to Hollywood.
Farewell to Hollywood (2014, 102 minutes, Henry Corra and Regina Nicholson) In a recurring poetic image, 17-year-old Regina Diane Nicholson swings between heaven and earth on a breathtakingly high cliff by the sea. Reggie is a tomboy struggling with cancer, her parents and her dream of making a film. She impresses us with her loving, strong personality and wisdom beyond her years, as well as her morbid sense of humor. Together with director Henry Corra, she is working on a portrait of herself and her struggle with her illness. The film’s initial focus is on Reggie, but it quickly makes way for an escalating conflict between her and her parents as Reggie develops a closer relationship with Henry, who takes her seriously. When Reggie turns 18 and can make decisions on her own, things become even more intense. This film is a poetic fairytale about love and death, holding on and letting go, one that invites us to discuss the relationship between the maker, subject and family. An eclectic mix of images with the intimacy of a video diary or home movie, it is filmed both by Henry and by Reggie and supplemented by their text message exchanges, images from her favorite movies, and fairytale-like scenes with songs that together form a heartwarming, but also heartbreaking and controversial ode to Reggie. Winner of the Audience Award at EDOX 2013. Winner of the CANON CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD and Honorable Mention for Grand Prix competition at the 11. PLANETE + DOC.
The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan (2010, 77 minutes, Henry Corra) Private McKinley Nolan vanished forty years ago in Vietnam on the Cambodian frontier. Some say he was captured, some say he was a traitor, some even say he was an American operative. The US Army officially claims he was radicalized and "went native", joining the Viet Cong and later encountering the Khmer Rouge. In 2006, retired US Army Lt. Dan Smith, revisiting the battlefields of his youth, may have encountered the elusive McKinley, alive. So began a journey into the heart of darkness. Marlon Brando was not found at the end of this. The film will have a world premiere in June 2010.
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