A still from the short film - Fishing Without Nets, Directed by Cutter Hodierne Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival -
Filmed in Kenya, East Africa, Cutter Hodierne’s 17 minute short ‘Fishing Without Nets’ is a story about Somali pirates. After being noticed for his self-made short videos Cutter Hodierne dropped out of college in Boston and decided to take a plunge into film-making. With a bit of luck at the age of 22 he was touring the world with U2 as their filmmaker.
With a savvy sense for cultivating his own persona, the director claims his parents sold their possessions just before he was born, quit their jobs and bought a 32‐foot cutter-rigged sailboat from which he was christened Cutter. It was smooth sailing for the next three years of his life at least, around the South Pacific, which might have given him a pirate’s eye for roving and adventure.
A still from the short film - Fishing Without Nets, Directed by Cutter Hodierne
Though not all his upbringing was as exotic, having been raised in Virginia with a mother at NPR, he had enough of a regular education to get a good feel for digital video editing at an early age. Recently his efforts have paid off, and now at 25 years of age, he’s been fortunate to have his short film accepted into Sundance. His film ‘Fishing Without Nets’ is the story of pirates in Somalia, told from the perspective of the pirates. Though the script is fiction, the film has the feel of a documentary, and ripe for the recent interest in renegade pirates of the high seas.
Hodierne along with some of his school-mates took a gambit and flew to Kenya to shoot the film on a shoestring, recruiting his actors from the streets of Mombasa. Shooting the film in Kenya had been tough and the crew even had a run in with the law due to the stringent gun permit laws. With a bit more pirate charm, Hodierne hopes to finish his short in South Africa and turn it eventually into a feature film.
Native - Courtesy of Cutter Hodierne - http://www.mynameiscutter.com
View the Trailer: somalipiratemovie.com
Filmed in Kenya, East Africa, the 17 minute short ‘Fishing Without Nets’ is playing at Sundance Film Festival 2012
DIRECTOR Cutter Hodierne
SCREENWRITER Cutter Hodierne, John Hibey
Kenya, 2011, 17 min, color,
Somalian with English subtitles
http://www.mynameiscutter.com/
