Cortney "Cort" Wilson is a California-based film and documentary director, writer, and Emmy-nominated producer. Hailing from a remote fisherman's town in Sonoma County, Cort's roots are a unique blend of a witchy Brooklyn mother (who's actually from Jersey) and a father who was a legendary commercial fisherman and a musical genius.

 

Cort's career took off at Andrea Sperling and Joey Soloway's Topple Productions, contributing to the Golden Globe and Emmy-winning series Transparent and I Love Dick. This experience paved the way for their next role at NYLON Studios, where they produced and directed the millennial-focused news show NYLON News: This Just Happened... that no one saw in 2017. This project led to better reels, commercial directing gigs, and, eventually, the position of Director of Production at Girlgaze, Inc. in 2019, where they continued to push creative boundaries.

 

Since 2020, Cort has focused on impactful documentary content, consulting on "Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me" for Apple TV and "Love, Lizzo" for HBO. Their notable work with MasterClass includes Creative Producing courses featuring Ringo Starr, Yo-Yo Ma, Joan Benoit-Samuelson, and more. They also produced Web3 content for WWE through Fox's Blockchain Creative Labs.