| Chandler Tuttle | |
| Occupation: | Writer, Director |
| Years Active: | 2005 - present |
Chandler Tuttle is an American writer and director who currently serves as creative director of the Oslo Freedom Forum. He lives in New York City.[1]
Before going to college, Tuttle founded a multimedia design firm in New York whose clients included such media companies as MTV, Condé Nast, and BBDO as well as financial firms such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. [1] He is the youngest brother of MacKenzie Scott.
Tuttle attended New York University receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Film in 2005.[2]
Tuttle was assistant to the president at Focus Features from March 2005 to March 2007.[2]
He was the graphic designer for the 2007 film “The Libel Tourist,” a documentary about Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of a book on Islamic terrorism, who was sued by a Saudi billionaire in a British court.[3]
Although not cited on IMDB,[4] he is listed on several sites as having worked on Evan Coyne Maloney's 2007 documentary Indoctrinate U. Some sources give him a “designed and edited by” credit on the film.[5] [6] According to Documentary Wire, he edited the film.[7] Other sources credit him and Blaine Greenberg with writing the music.
In a 2008 interview with Sonny Bunch of Doublethink Magazine, Tuttle said that after being shown a rough cut of Indoctrinate U, he told the filmmakers that “the reason you’re having difficulty getting feedback and making progress here is because it really hasn’t gotten a critical mass....What you’re showing people isn’t really a movie.” Tuttle went back to the raw footage and, he said, “rebuilt the film from the ground up. … They gave me carte blanche.” According to Bunch, “Tuttle emerged from his editing bay” with “something that actually looked like a movie – a product that could be tinkered with and perfected before it was released.”[8]
Shortly thereafter, Tuttle was named a fellow of the Motion Picture Institute, which permitted him to leave Focus Features and work full-time on 2081 and other MPI projects, to which he brought not only his film skills but his background in graphic design.[8]
Among the MPI projects to which Tuttle contributed was Free Market Cure, a series of short films replying to Michael Moore’s Sicko, and also “helped design one-sheets – the full-sized movie posters that hang in theaters and outside of screenings – for films under the MPI label.” On one of the Free Market Cure films, Uninsured in America (2007), Tuttle is credited with “Design & Motion Graphics.”[9]
Sonny Bunch of Doublethink Magazine called him “arguably MPI's most important asset.”[8]
Tuttle wrote and directed the 2009 science-fiction film 2081, which was based on Kurt Vonnegut's short story “Harrison Bergeron.” It premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 29, 2009.[2]
From May 2009 to the present, Tuttle has served as creative director of the Oslo Freedom Forum, a non-profit organization that holds a conference every May in Oslo, Norway.[2]
He is a co-producer of Honor Flight, a documentary about World War II veterans, which won awards at the Cleveland, Richmond, Omaha, and GI film festivals in 2013.[10]
As of 2013, according to one report, Tuttle was working on “a feature-length adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's Hugo Award-winning novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.”[11]
He is represented by United Talent Agency[12] and Management 360.[1]
An interviewer noted in 2008 that Tuttle was fond of quoting a sentence from Ayn Rand's Romantic Manifesto: “Art is a selective recreation of reality reflecting the artist’s metaphysical value judgments.”[8]
He served as a judge at the 2013 Hotchkiss Film Festival.[11] [13]
In February 2007, Tuttle won a fellowship from the Moving Picture Institute that allowed him to pursue filmmaking full-time.[1]