Chachi D. Hauser (she/they) is a writer and filmmaker born in NYC, now based between New Orleans and Paris. Chachi’s first book, It’s fun to be a person I don’t know, was published in March 2023 by the University of Nebraska Press in their American Lives Series. Her writing has appeared in Lit Hub, Hobart, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, The Writer’s Chronicle, among others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart prize. She’s the nonfiction editor at the literary journal Hunger Mountain and a new Writing MFA faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Chachi produced Hollow Tree, a feature documentary about three young women coming of age into a new climate reality in Louisiana, which premiered at the 2022 New Orleans Film Festival (Jury Award, Audience Award) and was supported by the Sundance Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts, the International Documentary Association, among others. She’s also producing several international fiction & documentary projects in development, in association with Astrae Productions (CH) and Amok Films (FR).

Chachi produced the short film “The Rat” (2019 Sundance Film Festival) and was the associate producer on Netflix/POV documentary Roll Red Roll (2018 Tribeca Film Festival). She was selected for the 2019 Sundance Talent Forum, the 2019 Southern Producers Lab, the 2020 The Gotham Documentary Lab, the 2021 Holland Film Meeting, the 2022 Hot Docs Deal Maker Forum, among others. She graduated with honors in film studies from Wesleyan University and completed her MFA in creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Chachi’s writing and filmmaking explore topics of gender, environment, identity, family, and the imagination (personal and collective) with a passion for exploring the wild // fluid // in-between places. 

(photo by Kira Akerman)