C. Hawthorne O'Flaherty
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
C. Hawthorne O'Flaherty, born and raised in central Ohio; began
carrying a journal in his freshman year of high school to impress
chicks. When that failed he began to write in it. Since then he has
written on anything that can bear it, though he never seriously
considered that writing would become his life. Still, he was eager to
be expressed. With an inspired desire for connection he set at
fulfilling his self-assigned life's mission. With this at heart that he
attended the University of New Mexico majored in psychology. But the
fleeting nature of the spoke language and his deepening desire for
communication and transcendence brought him back to his early love of
writing. His lust for language has lead to poetry, short stories and
novels. The source of much of his writing can be traced to fact only
after it is finished; he doesn't set out to write a story, simply
writes until the story occurs. Despite varied subjects and themes of
his writing, a distinct vision emerged in his stories reflecting his
sense of purpose. His stories filled with rich visuals were coupled
with a need to connect with an increasingly disjointed world. However,
the audience he most wished to connect with didn't read books, or
poetry, they watched movies. A confluence of his passion for visual
poetic expression and the skinned knee kinetics of real on-screen
action occurred when he arrived in Los Angeles in 1998. After finishing
one course at UCLA, he felt prepared to disregard the advice he had
gotten and began to write screenplays. However, the paradox of writing
a story that someone else was going to tell inspired him to take the
logical next step and direct his films. He checked a book about
directing out of the library and made his first film, Scarlet Momentum (2004).