In 2012, Corral directed and produced a documentary film, Tom Wolfe Gets Back to Blood, which enjoyed a national run on PBS and was screened in more than 40 independent theaters around the country.
It is the only film ever made about Tom Wolfe, an iconic author and satirist whose stature in American letters has loomed large for the last half century.
Corral is the 2nd child of Oscar Jose Corral-Corral and Maria Caridad Parlade y Fernandez de Castro, Cuban exiles.
[citation needed] Corral later graduated from the University of Florida's journalism program, and won first place in the Hearst National Writing Awards in 1998[3] with an article about the budding medical marijuana scene in San Francisco that year.
While working in Tribune tower, Corral researched and broke several stories, including an in-depth scoop on a legal fight over the estate of Beat Generation Author and Poet, Jack Kerouac.
Titled "Fighting Over Jack", the article reported that Kerouac's estate was worth just $91 at the time of his death, but had grown to be valued at more than $10 million, triggering a legal struggle for control.
While at Newsday, Corral worked on several high-profile stories, including the case of Reyna Angelica Marroquin, a Salvadoran immigrant to New York who disappeared in 1969.
Teele was eventually indicted on federal and state corruption charges and shot himself to death in the lobby of the Miami Herald building.
[13] Corral covered the 2003-2004 presidential primary of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman[1], following Al Gore's former running mate for months as he combed New Hampshire and other early-voting states pining for votes.
[16] Corral spent a week living in the destroyed Radisson downtown with other journalists, covering the unrest and chaos that followed the historic storm.
[18] He covered the story of Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban exile militant and accused terrorist who slipped past Homeland Security to sneak into Miami in 2005.
[23] It unleashed a firestorm in the Cuban exile community and turned Corral into a target for death threats, slander and undaunted libel.
[25] Corral continued working on investigative stories on how the United States government was spending hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to promote democracy in Cuba.
Corral was targeted by many on local Spanish-language radio and television with insults and as Miami Herald editor Tom Fiedler put it at the time, "blood libel."
Perhaps he was drunk from the $8.5 million the Department of Homeland Security allotted the Magic City police force to fend off opponents of the Free Trade Association of the Americas.
Scrappy Miami Herald reporter Oscar Corral, who was bicycle-embedded with Timoney when he snagged the quote, slammed it into the lead sentence of his story, right where it belonged.
The prudish daily softened the f-word to "f---" on the printed page, but that didn't keep this quote from ricocheting into a revealing metaphor of the man Miami pays to keep the peace.”[26] In 2007, Corral was named by Miami New Times as “Best Commie Agent”, an ironic allusion to the extensive slander and libel that befell Corral following his investigations of how the U.S. government was misspending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to promote democracy in Cuba.
First he writes a story informing Miami residents that ten South Florida journalists are on the payrolls of U.S. propaganda vehicles Radio and TV Martí.
And then he reports that most of that local spending was done without oversight or competitive bidding, and that the goods purchased for anti-Castro activists to foster democracy included Nintendo Game Boys, a chainsaw, Sony PlayStations, cashmere sweaters, a mountain bike, Godiva chocolates, and crabmeat.
Thank God for the freelance columnist at El Nuevo Herald, Nicolas Perez Diaz-Arguelles, who finally put two and two together and took the leap of faith to insinuate what was on all of our minds: Oscar Corral is a Cuban spy.
Eating truffles while playing Grand Theft Auto, That's a slap in Castro's face.”[27] Corral remained silent during most of the controversy, and focused instead on completing the multi-part investigative series.