Talent Guide

Carly Hugo

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2014

Bio

Carly Hugo is a New York-based independent film producer and the co-founder of Loveless. She produced Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother of George, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the US Dramatic Best Cinematography Award, and was named one of the National Board of Review’s Top 10 Independent Films of 2013. Hugo also produced Academy Award-nominee Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut, Higher Ground (Sundance ’11), which was released by Sony Pictures Classics, and the documentary Hot Coffee (Sundance ’11), which premiered on HBO and was awarded a Television Academy Honor from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She recently produced Self-Titled, an online multi-part documentary about Beyonc’s visual album, directed by Academy Award-nominee Zachary Heinzerling. Hugo is currently in production on HBO’s Nora Ephron documentary, Everything is Copy, and in pre-production on Maris Curran’s Five Nights in Maine, a Cinereach grantee and a recipient of the San Francisco Film Society/KRF Filmmaking Grant. She was a co-producer of Bachelorette (Sundance ’12), Peter and Vandy (Sundance ’09), Beware the Gonzo (Tribeca ’10), and Beautiful Darling (Berlin ’10). Hugo was an IFP Fellow for the Cannes Producers’ Network in 2013, and holds a B.A. in Film Studies from Columbia University.

Current Project

Five Nights In Maine

Logline

A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss of his wife, travels to rural Maine to seek answers from his estranged mother-in-law, who is herself confronting guilt and grief over her daughter's death.