Neal Hutcheson is an American filmmaker, photographer, and author.
Neal Hutcheson is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, and author with a large body of work documenting heritage in transition. His honors include a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship, the Brown Hudson Award from the North Carolina Folklore Society, the North Carolina Filmmaker Award, and three regional Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Hutcheson produced the Emmy-winning documentaries Talking Black in America (with Danica Cullinan, 2019), First Language — The Race to Save Cherokee (with Danica Cullinan, 2015), and The Last One (2009), as well as the Emmy-nominated films Core Sounders — Living from the Sea (2013) and Talking Black in America—Roots (with Danica Cullinan, 2022) and co-produced the Emmy nominated films Signing Black in America (lead producer Danica Cullinan, 2022) and Land and Water Revisited (with Elijah Hermitt and Kirk French, 2021). In addition to numerous other documentaries, Hutcheson has produced adaptations of Gary Carden’s stage plays The Prince of Dark Corners (2007) and Birdell (2018).
Many of Hutcheson’s broadcast titles were produced for The Language & Life Project at NC State University, Walt Wolfram’s celebrated public education outreach initiative. Other broadcast titles have been produced by Sucker Punch Pictures, a small documentary production organization, and he is a founding member of Empty Bottle Pictures, with Kirk French and Elijah Hermitt, a collaborative community-oriented filmmaking initiative that recently completed Land and Water Revisited / Revisitando Tierra y Agua (2021) and is currently at work on A Century After Nanook with the community of Inukjuak in northern Quebec.
Hutcheson’s 2021 book The Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton received the Grand Prize from the 30th Annual Writers Digest Self-Published Book Awards, the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the Independent Publishers Book Awards, the largest unaffiliated book contest in the world, the 2022 National Indie Excellence Award, and was a finalist for the 2022 Next Generation Book Award.
Hutcheson lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
