Noah Hutton
Noah Hutton got his start as a director in 2009 with Crude Independence, a documentary feature about a small town in North Dakota in the midst of a major oil boom. The film premiered at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival and won Best Documentary Feature at the 2009 Oxford Film Festival. In 2010 and 2011, Noah filmed Year 1 and Year 2 of his ten-year film-in-the-making that will track the progress of the The Blue Brain Project, an attempt led by neuroscientist Henry Markram to simulate an entire human brain, cell by cell, on IBM supercomputers. The short films from Years 1 and 2 were invited to screen at Google/O’Reilly Media’s SciFoo in 2010 and 2011 respectively.
Noah won Best Director at the 2011 FirstGlance Film Festival for his 2011 documentary feature More to Live For, commissioned by the global cancer foundation Love Hope Strength. The film has screened at over twenty festivals to date and is enacting a unique social action campaign in conjunction with screenings: audiences have the opportunity to get their cheek swabbed in theater lobbies following each showing of the film, adding themselves to the international bone marrow donor registry and potentially saving someone’s life. Noah’s 2012 feature-length concert documentary King for Two Days about jazz drummer Dave King (The Bad Plus) recently premiered at the 2012 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
Noah has directed commercial content and music videos through his NYC-based production company Couple 3, including videos for The Indecent (Warner Brothers) and the The Bad Plus (Universal/E1). His video projections and lighting design for The Bad Plus‘ rendition of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring will tour Europe and the U.S. in 2012, culminating in a performance at Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors Festival in New York City in the summer of 2012. In 2011, Noah wrote, directed, and scored 30 short films for Scientific American that presented scientific concepts in a high production value, narrative format, blending live-action scenes with animation. The series is set to debut in the fall of 2012. Noah is a graduate of Wesleyan University, where he studied art history and neuroscience.
