Tyler Cornack's 'Mermaid' plumbs a 'Florida man' premise for its heartbreak and melancholy, but the SXSW selection is missing ...

Florida has become somewhat of a mythical fever dream of a place where the "Florida Man" is a Sasquatchian entity, and the ...

Exclusive: Avery Potemri, Kevin Nealon, and Tom Arnold also star in the SXSW feature. Cornack, whose work John Waters has praised, writes and directs the SXSW 2025 feature “Mermaid” about a ...

Writer and director Tyler Cornack, the man behind Butt Boy and Tiny Cinema, is back with his third feature, simply titled Mermaid, which had its world premiere at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival.

In Tyler Cornack’s Mermaid, a lonely Florida man, Doug (Johnny Pemberton), finds a wounded ...

It’s not ripped from the headlines, but Tyler Cornack’s comedy “Mermaid” certainly seems inspired by them — specifically, the strange “Florida Man” news stories that have become a ...

Leave it to “Butt Boy” filmmaker Tyler Cornack to put a new twist on the mermaid-meets-man love story. Cornack, whose work John Waters has praised, writes and directs the SXSW 2025 feature “Mermaid” ...

It’s not ripped from the headlines, but Tyler Cornack’s comedy “Mermaid” certainly seems inspired by them — specifically, the strange “Florida Man” news stories that have become a meme-friendly ...