My Day Job

Cori began her writing career as a playwright in Austin, Texas where she collaborated with a diverse series of co-writers ranging from Willie Nelson to incarcerated teens. She sold the second television series she ever pitched: Breaker High starring Ryan Gosling to UPN for sixty-five episodes and assumed it would always be that easy.

While working on the set of a series featuring two well-known and very wealthy teen twins, Cori wrote her first feature script in five days while holed up in abandoned production offices on a lot in the Valley.

Her second feature, the adventure comedy Knockdown Drag Out, was written from the jungles of Guatemala and emailed back in pieces to her manager whenever the generator was working. Focus Features covered it as “a summer blockbuster hit waiting to happen.”

In the world of producing, she is currently exec-producing ARIZONA for Miramax and Ideology, written by Sheldon Turner with Ben Affleck attached to direct. Additionally she has a new film at Summit Entertainment called WARM BODIES, written and directed by Jonathan Levine. The project is based on a short-story she stumbled across online written by the preternaturally talented (and then unknown) writer Isaac Marion.

Most recently she has the incredible good fortune to be producing a documentary based on the extraordinary work of PARTNERS IN HEALTH and Dr. Paul Farmer, her personal hero and subject of her favorite book MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS.  The film – directed by Kief Davidson – follows Dr. Farmer and his colleagues in Haiti, Rwanda, Malawi, Siberia, and Boston.