writer/filmmaker
Tim Hotchner is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker whose work spans stage, screen, and prose. His adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea had its world premiere at Pittsburgh Playhouse, and he has developed projects as a writer for Disney and Escape Pictures. He currently has three plays and a novel in development, including Swell and My Thief, My Love, which had its initial reading at WME this season. As head of the A. E. Hotchner Estate, Tim oversees a growing slate of literary and entertainment projects, including Everyone Comes to Elaine’s (musical/series), Kissing the Wind (series), Doris Day (musical/series), and an adaptation of the bestselling memoir Papa Hemingway (series). Tim’s directing and cinematography credits include Accelerating America and The Last Mountain, and he’s a producer on an upcoming untitled Paul Newman documentary. Tim is a graduate of Brown University, where he studied English, education, and theater.
“[Hotchner] captures the inspiration of the subject and the humanistic heart of the film."
-Seattle International Film Festival
“Tim… has written a play about human emotions: determination, jubilation, exhaustion, depression, triumph, despair, loneliness, rage, regret, and resignation.”
-The Hemingway Society
“The black heart of coal country — and, as the film shows, our national energy debate — has never seemed so in need of white knights.”
-The New York Times