Cormac Fingeret is a writer-director drawn to the way trauma reveals itself in routine, gesture, and the small ways people try to care for one another. His short See Me will have its world premiere at the Oscar-qualifying deadCenter Film Festival. Fiscally sponsored by The Gotham, the film was named one of 20 Hot Films in the Making for the 2024 Carole Dorothy Joyce Grant and ranked among the Top 20 Drama Shorts on the Coverfly Red List. A magna cum laude graduate of NYU Tisch, he is developing his debut feature, Ellie, Not Eleanor.