Corra Films

Landmark Documentary "Same Sex America" From Renowned Non-Fiction Filmmaker Henry Corra Re-Released on Hulu via SHOWTIME - Shoot Online. Check out the link in our bio for our release in Shoot!

Our award winning doc SAME SEX AMERICA is back! Now available for streaming on Showtime and Hulu:

We are thrilled about this piece in Shoot Magazine this week. In case missed it check it out.

Really excited about the launch of our new campaign for NYC DOH, Smoking = Suffering. Smoking kills about 12,000 New Yorkers every year, but from today through March 7, you can apply for free nicotine patches and lozenges by visiting nysmokefree.com. Check out our lead ad below!

With UNLOCKED, Henry Corra attempts to reach the unreachable with his unique brand of non-fiction filmmaking known as Living Cinema. "Everything I do is about making deep connections with people - any kind of person - on film," says Corra. His work-in-progress UNLOCKED is as much a laboratory as a film. In and around St. Augustine, FL, teenagers and young adults are connecting to the world in a way that nobody around them thought was possible, including their families. A gro...up of severe autistics are speaking their first words. They’ve lived their entire lives in a kind of exile, unable to translate thoughts into speech. UNLOCKED is a film about walking out of this prison into the bright sunlight. For years, it was conventional wisdom that the form of autism they suffer from precluded all forms of communication. Doctors and caregivers assumed the idea of communicationof forming complex thoughts and making them known to otherswas an impossibility. Many still do. The families of the people documented in UNLOCKED have discovered that although these people cannot speak coherently, what they can do is type. Sitting at a keyboard, their thoughts come pouring out, a lifetime of previously unheard utterances forming a deluge. The results are staggering. As Lanier, one of the major characters in the film, put it in her first typed message, I am in here. I have always been in here. UNLOCKED: WORK-IN-PROGRESS I’ve spent my life looking for deep human connections on film, Corra says. And now we’ve found an entirely new way to do it. We’re trying to create an aesthetic platform that promotes empathy for our characters, and a way to take them seriously on their own terms. They have a lot to say, and we’re helping them to use film language to say it. The making of the film has itself been a part of the journey, so the film, in a sense, is about the process of making it. The characters have come to depend on it, anticipating and preparing for the next shoot. For UNLOCKED, Corra and his crew have developed a striking visual vocabulary. They’ve set up a studio that eliminates sensory overloada connection space, as Corra calls itin which the characters type their thoughts. As they do, the words scroll in large type across screens suspended in front of them, a subtle amplification of their voices. UNLOCKED will be a testament to the power of cinematic language, as well as the culmination of these pioneering methods. As the progenitor of Living Cinema, Corra eschews the verité approach favored by traditional documentaries, instead collaborating with his subjects so everyone plays an active role in deciding how the film will unfold. Will this approach allow him to truly reach the unreachable? Vimeo link to teaser found here: https://vimeo.com/295246914

Karl made a friend! @karlfs #nyccinematographer

Henry Corra and team on location in ATL for new Mercedes campaign. #filmmaker #nycfilm

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I’m being followed by a moonshadow #nycfilmmaker #nycfilm

On location at Mel’s Drive In, Sunset Blvd Hollywood. #nycfilm #nycfilmmakers #sunsetblvd #filmmaking

THANK YOU to the team at Corra Films for stopping by JSA today! This group is doing a neat story on our very own Matthew to highlight his many incredible talent...s and accomplishments. Keep up the great work Matthew, and thanks to the film crew for helping spread #AutismAwareness, #AutismAcceptance, and the many #AutismAccomplishments of our wonderful kiddos! <3 #JSArocks #CorraFilmsRocks

Making a portrait can be a powerful step along the road of self-awareness, for the subject and the photographer. Sharing what you discover takes courage. I’m ve...ry inspired by the tremendous strength these individuals possess. And, I’m so thankful for the opportunity to help shine a little light on them. So proud of our beautiful collaboration with the amazing teams at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene , First Lady Chirlane McCray , Sherry Matthews Advocacy Marketing , and Corra Films ! If you ride the NYC subway (MTA New York City Transit ) you're likely to see this powerful campaign EVERYWHERE this spring!