Billy Corben

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1. First role

   Corben's first feature documentary as director was Raw Deal: A Question of Consent. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001, and at the time he was among the festival's youngest directors.

2. A first

   Billy Corben's Cocaine Cowboys had a limited theatrical release in 2006, and it went on to become the highest-rated documentary ever shown on the Showtime cable network.

3. Behind the camera

   In 2019, Corben and Aurin Squire co-wrote Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy, a documentary theater piece based on Corben's Cocaine Cowboys documentaries. Miami New Drama commissioned it, and it played at the Colony Theatre from March 7 to April 7, 2019.

4. Behind the camera

   Corben handles the soundtracks for every Rakontur production, choosing the artists and staying involved in the music process. Jan Hammer, a Grammy winner known for Miami Vice, wrote and played the original score for Cocaine Cowboys.

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   Beyond film

   Corben has also written original songs of his own that were used on the soundtracks of Raw Deal: A Question of Consent, The U and Square Grouper.