Biography

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).
- IMDb mini biography by: IOF