Laurence Coriat  Laurence Coriat is a French screenwriter and short film director, best known for her work with Michael Winterbottom. Coriat was born in France and moved to England in her twenties. In 1999, she teamed with British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom on "Wonderland" which was selected in competition at Cannes in 1999 and won the best British Independent Film award that year. She would work with Winterbottom again on "A Summer in Genoa". Other features include "Me Without You", "Hunky Dory" and "Patagonia". In 2018, she wrote for the British crime drama television series "McMafia", inspired by the book "McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld" (2008) by journalist Misha Glenny.