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 for his short film, Fishing Without Nets, and
for winning the Directing Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival for
a feature version of the same film.Hodierne was born in 1986 in San
Francisco, California to journalist Alicia Shepard and 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 in Boston, but dropped out after
two semesters to focus on filmmaking.
filmmaker best known for winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012
Sundance Film Festival for his short film, Fishing Without Nets, and
for winning the Directing Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival for
a feature version of the same film.Hodierne was born in 1986 in San
Francisco, California to journalist Alicia Shepard and 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 in Boston, but dropped out after
two semesters to focus on filmmaking.
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