Arts & Sciences Welcomes Filmmaker Hannah Pearl Utt

Arts & Sciences is excited to welcome director Hannah Pearl Utt to its roster of extraordinary talent. Versatile in tone, her character-based comedy is as heartfelt as it is hilarious. Utt’s films elicit immediate feelings from her audiences, making them uniquely compelling to watch.

Drawing on her background as an actor, Utt has a talent for directing performers to deliver layered, authentic portrayals of complex characters. Her latest feature, Cora Bora, starring Megan Stalter (Hacks) as an unhinged millennial musician, premiered at SXSW and will be released on Netflix in 2025. Her first feature, Before You Know It, premiered at Sundance and featured Utt alongside Judith Light, Alec Baldwin, and Mandy Patinkin. Utt’s filmmaking career began at Sundance with the short film Partners, co-written with Jen Tullock, and she has since participated in several Sundance Institute programs, including the Directors and Screenwriters Lab while mentoring young filmmakers through Ignite.

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