Education
In the late 1980s he attended high school at High Mowing School, a boarding school in Wilton, New Hampshire.
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In the late 1980s he attended high school at High Mowing School, a boarding school in Wilton, New Hampshire.
Although born in Hartford, Connecticut, Chick moved to New Hampshire as a youngster. He went on to Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, where he specialized in literature and psychology with the aid of grants from the King Foundation. Chick spent a number of years unsure of what he wanted to do with his life and took on a life of a wanderer for some time.
He said watching Kings of the Road helped him find direction:.
I wanted to be doing something that was a little bit more, I don’t know, populist? More accessible. I felt like a narrative interested me, and it wasn’t until I saw Kings of the Road that I realized that film was a place that might make sense for medical
In 1998, Chick graduated in cinematography from State University of New York Purchase Film School in Purchase, New New York His first major film, which he wrote and directed, was released in 2002.
lieutenant was titled XX/XY, and it starred Mark Ruffalo and Kathleen Robertson.
lieutenant examined the complex relationship between three Sarah Lawrence College students, both during their time at the school and then many years later. lieutenant was an independent production, which was shown at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival (where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize) and subsequently taken up by International Finance Corporation Films. His most recent movie, called August, was released by ContentFilm International in 2008.
The cast list is headed by Josh Hartnett, and features Adam Scott, Naomie Harris, Rip Torn, and David Bowie.
The plot centered on two brothers, with one of them, Tom (Hartnett), involved in a struggle to save his internet company on the stock market just before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Chick directed the film and was also executive producer.