Chad Hartigan was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Filmmaking. His first feature as writer/director, LUKE AND BRIE ARE ON A FIRST DATE premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2008 and was remade for Latin American audiences in 2013 as LUNA EN LEO, which earned a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the Argentinian Oscars. His second feature, THIS IS MARTIN BONNER premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best of NEXT and went on to also win the John Cassavetes Award at the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards. His third feature, MORRIS FROM AMERICA premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and a Special Jury Prize for Acting. It was released by A24, garnering nominations at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the Gotham Awards and a special citation by the National Board of Review. His fourth feature, LITTLE FISH, a romance set during a fictional pandemic, was ironically delayed due to a very real pandemic and released by IFC Films in 2021 to critical acclaim. THE THREESOME is his fifth feature.