Chip Hourihan

Teaches at Scott Powers Studios

Chip Hourihan is one of the leading producer/directors currently working in New York's independent film world, and has produced seven independent dramatic features over the past nine years. He produced the feature film frozen river, which received the grand jury prize at the 2008 sundance film festival and was nominated for two 2009 academy awards, for best original screenplay and best actress. Frozen river also received two Gotham Independent Film Awards (including a best film award for Hourihan) and was nominated for seven independent spirit awards (including a best feature film nomination for Hourihan), taking home two.

Among his other films, Hourihan produced mind the gap, winner of the special jury award for narrative feature at south by southwest, which was released theatrically, broadcast, and distributed by showtime in 2004.

Hourihan has five feature projects currently in development as a producer. These films include Whaling city, a contemporary drama set in the world of commercial fishing in New Bedford, MA. Whaling city was the winner of both a screenplay award and a $100,000 production grant from the Sloan Foundation, and was a selection for the Independent Feature Project's prestigious no borders program. Hourihan's other film projects include temporary hero, a coming-of-age story set on Nantucket during the summer of the first moon landing, The dying game, a contemporary dark comedy to be shot in the New York area, and a new comedic project to be shot in New York city with writer/director Eric Schaeffer, with whom Hourihan collaborated on mind the gap.

As a director, Hourihan wrote, produced, and directed the multiple award-winning film glissando, which variety called "a small gem deserving wider exposure a striking debut for talented helmer-scripter Chip Hourihan." The film received a great number of best feature, best first Feature, and best actor awards on the film festival circuit.

Hourihan's next project as a writer/director will be angry candy, a story of sex, drugs, and modern poetry set in Somerville, MA in the late 1980s. angry candy was a sundance screenwriters lab finalist in 2009, and this script is currently being workshopped with students in the film scene study program.

Hourihan is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University with degrees in english and architecture.