Billy Corben
Billy Corben (born 1978) is an American documentary filmmaker known for muscular, fast-moving accounts of Miami's underworld and South Florida culture. Born in Fort Myers and raised in South Florida, he attended the University of Miami before co-founding the Miami-based studio Rakontur with producer Alfred Spellman. His feature debut Raw Deal: A Question of Consent (2001) made him one of the youngest directors ever to premiere at Sundance, and he became widely known for the Cocaine Cowboys franchise (2006–) about the Miami cocaine wars of the late 1970s and 1980s. He has directed the ESPN 30 for 30 entries The U and The U Part 2 about University of Miami football, the Cuban-baseball-pipeline doc Screwball (2018), the HBO political documentary 537 Votes (2020), and Hulu's God Forbid (2022). He is an Emmy, Peabody, and Edward R. Murrow Award winner.