Noah Hutton was born to actors Timothy Hutton and Debra Winger. Hutton got his start as a director with Crude Independence (2009), which premiered at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival. His 2012 concert film, King for Two Days (2012) is a portrait of jazz drummer Dave King (The Bad Plus), and in 2015 he directed Deep Time (2015), which premiered at SXSW. Hutton is a graduate of Wesleyan University, where he studied art history and neuroscience.