Courtney Hoffman
Proof of Concept Selection
THE SISTERS OF SCOTT COUNTY
All Cherry Mary wants is to pass her Commercial Driver’s License test and become a trucker — but after her family’s criminal enterprise makes the wrong enemies, when the test starts, the trouble begins.
If you need the title in it, just add to the end: Set in 1972, Tennessee, the Sisters of Scott County is a movie about trucking, moonshine and sisterhood.
Biography
Courtney Hoffman built a career as a Costume Designer on films like BABY DRIVER, THE HATEFUL EIGHT, CAPTAIN FANTASTIC before expanding her storytelling as a writer and director. She made her directorial debut with the Western short THE GOOD TIME GIRLS, starring Laura Dern, and her passion for female-led genre and action continues with The Sisters of Scott County, a 1970s trucker movie starring Kaitlyn Dever. Most recently, she directed the season finale of AMERICAN HORROR STORIES: THING UNDER THE BED.
As a writer, she’s developed and sold original stories to Max, Paramount, Sony, Peacock, FX, and Freeform. Her most recent television projects include KENTUCKY BLAZE—a mother-daughter stoner comedy created with Miley and Tish Cyrus—and DRAMA MAJORS, a mental health mystery inspired by her NYU Tisch classmates.
Her work in costume design was immortalized on screen in a scene with Leonardo DiCaprio in ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD.
She is represented by CAA and Kaplan Perrone.