Hunter Lee Hughes

Storytelling found several pathways of expression through multi-disciplinary artist Hunter Lee Hughes, culminating in his debut feature film "Guys Reading Poems," a mixture of dreamlike poetry, traditional character-driven narrative and experimental film. As a nerdy 12-year old, Hunter booked his first role in a low-budget horror film, shot in his hometown of Houston, Texas. After graduating magna cum laude from Trinity University, Hunter moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry, learning the craft of acting from luminaries like Ivana Chubbuck, David Farkas, and Jean-Louis Rodrigue. To pay bills along the way, Hunter served as a freelance story analyst for Paramount Classics/Vantage and later worked as a writer's assistant to the late Mardik Martin (co-writer, "Mean Streets"). Buoyed by this on-the-job training and unsatisfied with the roles traditional Hollywood had to offer at the time, Hunter wrote and performed "Fate of the Monarchs," a theater piece that explored the migration patterns of monarch butterflies as a metaphor for a closeted aspiring artist coming to terms with his sexuality. Hunter fully committed to "the road less traveled" in 2008, when he founded Fatelink to produce his second play, "The Sermons of John Bradley." The mission of the company is to develop compelling three-dimensional characters in projects that emphasize the great potential of the creative process for spiritual and psychological growth. Since then, Fatelink has produced a number of plays, films, and series, including "Guys Reading Poems." In his spare time, Hunter loves playing poker, watching tennis and spending time with his French bulldog, Luca.