Hal Hartley

Born in 1959, Hal Hartley attended school in his hometown of Lindenhurst, New York, before going to Boston in 1978 to study art. He left art school after a year and was accepted to the State University of New York at Purchase and studied there from 1980 till 1984. His most recent film, MEANWHILE, premiered in February 2012; his previous feature film, FAY GRIM, was released in 2007 and debuted at the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals. In the meantime, a second collection of short films (made primarily in Berlin where he lived for four years) was released worldwide in April 2010.

His other works include: SIMPLE MEN (Official Selection at Cannes in 1992), FLIRT (1996), THE BOOK OF LIFE (1998) and NO SUCH THING (2001). He has won awards at the Sundance Film Festival for his film TRUST in 1991, the Tokyo International Film Festival for AMATEURr in 1994, the Cannes International Film Festival for HENRY FOOL in 1998 and the “Premi Noves Visions” award at the Sitges International Film Festival in Spain for THE GIRL FROM MONDAY in 2005. There have been retrospectives of his work in Rotterdam, Spain, New York, Norway, Korea, and Poland. Hartley is an alumni of the American Academy in Berlin. He was a lecturer at Harvard University from 2001 till 2004. He was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des lettres of the Republic of France in 1996. He lives in New York.