The Business of Screenwriting

Cory Thompson is an entertainment executive with over 14+ years of experience in representation and production. He is the President and Founder of Rewind Artists, a boutique management, production and consulting company, and works with actors, writers and directors across film, television and theatre. Literary clients have had scripts featured on The Black List and as a part of the Nicholls Fellowship as well as incubators with both SXSW and Sundance.

As a producer, Thompson most recently produced the upcoming feature film BARRON'S COVE with Mandalay Pictures. The ensemble cast includes Garrett Hedlund, Brittany Snow, Stephen Lang and Hamish Linklater and will premiere later this year. He also produced the coming-of-age comedy ROCKAWAY, which Gravitas Ventures released in 2019 and was called "sharply moving" by the New Yorker. He executive produced the unscripted Facebook Watch series BEATS FOR BREAKFAST featuring R&B superstar Miguel in collaboration with Roc Nation. He is in post-production on the animated project YOU. MATTER featuring Tony winner Laura Benanti, and has several other feature projects on his slate in various stages of development.

Thompson was previously an agent at Buchwald and a manager at Vanguard Management Group, where he led the New York office. He is an alum of NYU with a B.A. in Cinema Studies and Producing from the Tisch School of the Arts. He has previously worked with emerging creatives through programs at NYU and BAFTA, of which he is a proud member.