Ira McKinley: Passionate Storyteller
IRA MCKINLEY is a filmmaker, activist, and the director/producer of the award-winning documentary “The Throwaways.” Born in upstate New York, he is now based in South Florida where his most recent film, “Outta the Muck,” is set in Pahokee, Florida — his ancestral home.
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Remembering Alan Metter – Film Director
ALAN METTER (1942-2020) was a film director whose most notable credits include “Back to School,” starring Rodney Dangerfield and Sally Kellerman; “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt; “Working Tra$h,” starring George Carlin and Ben Stiller; and “Moving,” starring Richard Pryor and Randy Quaid. He also produced and directed the 1983 television special “The Winds of Whoopie” for Steve Martin.
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Billy Corben: A Video Chat
with “One of the Miami Guys”
Introduction to Billy Corben: 1:03 min. Photo & montage: Raymond Elman Billy Corben (b.1978), is an American...
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Billy Corben’s New Documentary “Screwball”
By Daniel Colmenares
This March, Billy Corben is set to debut his next foray into the world of sports with his new documentary Screwball. The film will follow performance enhancing drugs, the black eye of professional baseball , delving into the Biogenesis scandal of 2013, that involved Coral Gables’ Anthony Bosch, the infamous founder of Biogenesis of America, and a litany of Major League Baseball players, including then Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez.
The film made its first appearance last September at the Toronto Film Festival to much acclaim. Variety critic Joe Leydon said, “This time on the mound, he throws heat and scores impressively….” This film is an addition to Corben’s other highly regarded works such as Cocaine Cowboys and 30 for 30 The U.
Bullets Over Broadway ?? Going Legit ??
The Miami Herald published a story by Howard Cohen on January 7th, that Billy Corben, producing partner Alfred Spellman, and Miami New Drama’s artistic director Michel Hausmann are creating a stage adaptation of their 1980s classic film Cocaine Cowboys. We wonder what they will be selling during intermission.Given the existing audience for Cocaine Cowboys, many of whom have seen the movie multiple times and know some of the dialogue by heart (i.e. Mickey Munday, “Low tech beats hi tech”), we believe that huge success is possible.
