2014 Sundance Film Festival: Cutter Hodierne’s Fishing Without Nets

You’d be hard-pressed to find anything of a swashbuckling nature in what is essentially a pirate movie without the eye patches. While comparisons with other films dealing in the familiar subject matter were indeed included in the Sundancing discourse, Fishing Without Nets surveys the dire situation in Somalia via those who are pointing their Kalashnikovs and chewing the khat. Honored with the Best Directing prize, filmmaker Cutter Hodierne does apply a certain poetic veneer to this sprawling and tension filled film that innocently came about when the filmmaker thought about the motivations behind such a desperately bold act. Here’s footage from the World Premiere Post Q&A (January 17th – Library Center Theatre) with cast, Hodierne and producers Raphael Swann and Eddy Moretti.