COREY KOEPPER

Corey Koepper is a Brooklyn-based writer/director, producer, and editor. He challenges genre conventions with surreal, character-focused films from a queer perspective. Having received acclaim in Queerty and Film Threat for his prior short film ("On the Floor"), Corey is thrilled to unveil his new proof-of-concept horror film, "No Glow," now on a festival tour in 2025. As a creative writer/producer for ABC News promos, he has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy and won two PromaxBDA awards for his work promoting The View. A Virginia native and graduate of Virginia Tech’s film program, he loves rescuing dogs and beating the hell out of his drum kit!

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Corey and actor/producer Sasha Gheesling co-founded Para Noir Pictures, an indie production company specializing in queer genre films, in 2017. Their short "On The Floor" (2020), directed by Corey and co-written by Corey and Sasha, received the Best LGBTQ+ Film award from the Independent Shorts Awards and New York International Film Awards, Best Live-Action Short from FlickFair, and Best Experimental Film from the Lonely Wolf London International Film Festival. The film was featured in Queerty’s “What to Watch” column and received praise in a review from Film Threat.