Cutter Shepard Hodierne (born October 27, 1986) is an American filmmaker best known for winning the Grand Jury Prize at the

2012 Sundance Film Festival The 2012 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 until January 29, 2012 in Park City, Utah. 64 short films were selected for the festival from 7,675 submissions, including 27 international shorts from 3,592 submissions. Non-competition ...

for his short film, '' Fishing Without Nets'', and for winning the Directing Award at the

2014 Sundance Film Festival The 2014 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 16, 2014 until January 26, 2014 in Park City, Utah, United States, with screenings in Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance Resort in Utah. The festival opened with ''Whiplash'' directed by Da ...

for a feature version of the same film.

Early life

Hodierne was born in 1986 in San Francisco, California, to journalist

Alicia Shepard Alicia C. Shepard (born April 27, 1953, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American journalist, media writer and expert on the work and lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. In February 2014, she moved to Kabul, Afghanistan to work with Afghan ...

an
Robert Hodierne
winner of the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Meritorious Public Service in 1981 for a series on Brown Lung Disease that afflicted textile workers, earned as part of the team at the Charlotte, N.C. ....and today a professor of Journalism at the University of Richmond. Just prior to his birth, his parents sold everything they owned, quit their jobs, and bought a 32-foot 'cutter-rigged' sailboat, after which he was named. Hodierne was raised in Arlington, Virginia, where he graduated from H-B Woodlawn in 2005. He briefly attended

Emerson College Emerson College is a private college with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. It also maintains campuses in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and Well, Limburg, Netherlands ( Kasteel Well). Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a ...

in Boston, but dropped out after two semesters to focus on filmmaking.

Career

While still in high school, Hodierne gained local attention for producing a documentary about Wakefield High School basketball team's unlikely state championship run. After dropping out of Emerson less than a year later, he began directing short films and music videos full-time in the Washington, D.C., area, including the TV special and music video '' The Party Roll'' for Chuck Brown. In 2009, at age 22, Hodierne was hired as U2's on-the-road documentary filmmaker for the band's U2 360° Tour. After the tour, he travelled to Kenya with co-producers John Hibey and

Raphael Swann Raphael Swann is a film producer based in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Swann co-produced the short film '' Fishing Without Nets'', which won the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking ...

to direct a fictional short film about Somali piracy in the Indian Ocean called Fishing Without Nets. The film premiered at the

where it won the Grand Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking. In 2014, Hodierne returned to Sundance, winning the Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition for a feature film version of Fishing Without Nets produced and financed by ''Vice''. This was the company's first fictional film. It was released by 20th Century Fox and VICE Films in October 2014. Hodierne currently resides in Los Angeles.

References

External links

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Official website
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