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BIOGRAPHYCorin grew up in a world steeped in creatures & creativity, beginning his early career as a special fx monster-maker in his bike shed, aged 12; he made a number of super 8 and video films with school-friends who regularly stood in for his cast of zombies, werewolves and slasher victims. Throughout his teenage years Corin gained film set experience in sculpting, props, wardrobe & art departments on a variety of film, tv & theatre productions ranging from Royal National Ballet’s production of ‘Dracula’ to Columbia Pictures ‘First Knight’.
A keen sculptor, illustrator & film-maker obsessed and motivated by a healthy mixture of 1970’s storybooks and & 80’s Spielberg cinema, his balance of live action & animated work frequently mixes the macabre, the beautiful and the epic.
A degree in practical special effects at Wimbledon School Of Art lead to award winning stop-motion short ‘Butterfly’ in 2003, after which he began directing music videos with Keane's 'Somewhere Only We Know' & 'Bedshaped'. Signed to Academy Films in 2006 the wide diversity of bands ranges from underground acts including Jon Spencer, Martin Grech and The Guillemots as well as commercial pop/rock of Mcfly, The Feeling, Olly Murs, Paolo Nutini and Biffy Clyro. Other imaginative & inventive works on his reel include his MVA award winning Horrors promo ‘She is the new thing’ and the Rushes Shorts Best Music Video/Saatchi New Directors Showcase nomination for Prodigy’s 'Warriors Dance'.
In 2009 Corin was commissioned to make a short viral film for the BBC’s Poetry Season which featured London punks ‘The King Blues’ reciting a classic Lord Byron poem during the throes of a sweat drenched gig. He also completed ad & music video duties for Fallon's 'Big Swap Songs' for Cadburys Fairtrade Fortnight Campaign, which involved two tightly scheduled guerilla shoots in Scotland & Africa.
In 2011 Sony UK asked Corin to be Creative Director for exciting new signing ‘Dry The River’ overseeing all visual output, artwork design and video.
Since completing shorts including ‘Butterfly’ and ‘The Cost’ Corin has developed a number of his own horror based feature film projects including; dark fairy-tale ‘The Good People’, yeti survival horror ‘Refuge’ and teen horror comedy ‘Frogz Legz’. All three projects found homes in 2011 with Big Talk set to produce Refuge, Occupant Films with The Good People and Brilliant Films for Frogz Legz.
Corin is repped in the UK by Hugo Young at Independent and in the US by Marc Helwig at ICM.
He is managed by Jenny Wood at Elevate.
For music videos/commercials Liz Kessler at Academy Films.
hugoyoung@independenttalent.com
mhelwig@icmtalent.com
jwood@elevate-ent.com
liz.Kessler@academyfilms.com
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