Eli Hayes

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Gender Male

Birthday 1993-11-05

Deathday 2020-05-23 (26 years old)

Place of Birth Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Also Known As Hayes Eli, Eli Grier Hayes

Eli Hayes

Biography

Eli Grier Hayes (November 6th, 1993 - May 23rd, 2020) was an independent experimental filmmaker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He fell in love with cinema at a relatively early age upon viewing the works of directors such as James Benning and Chantal Akerman. Eli began screenwriting as he entered high school, and directed his first short films, "The Life That Follows" and "Nobody," during his senior year. While enrolled at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York -- where he received his bachelor's degree in abnormal psychology, with a minor in creative writing -- he founded Hazel Eye Productions. Eli has since directed, produced & edited more than twenty-five feature films, and approximately fifty short films. His work has been screened at over seventy festivals across six continents, including The Beijing International Short Film Festival, Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival, The Pune Short Film Festival, The Princeton Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival Melbourne, and The Milwaukee Short Film Festival, as well as venues such as Anthology Film Archives and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 2017, he graduated from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee with a master's degree in film & creative media, and went on to become the Project Manager at The Nashville Film Institute. He was also a long, prominent figure on the social media website, Letterboxd, where he often promoted his own work and helped spread awareness of multiple, under-seen works from other established and newcomer filmmakers. In 2019, Eli had relocated back to his home city of Milwaukee, where he was working on several different projects, both short form and feature length, before passing away on May 23rd, 2020 at the age of 26.

Known For

Producer

2020
Morning Has Broken

as Executive Producer

2020
A Lysergic Lullaby

as Producer

2019
These Days

as Producer

2018
Regarding the Case of Joan of Arc

as Executive Producer

Director

Nobody

as Director

2022
2020
A Lysergic Lullaby

as Director

2020
La La La

as Director

2020
Island

as Director

2020
Fallen

as Director

2020
2020
Of the Wind

as Director

2020
The Projected Rays

as Director

2019
Poem for Calvin

as Director

2019
Penumbra

as Director

2019
2019
Looking Glass

as Director

2019
Unbalanced Redux

as Director

2019
Epsilon

as Director

2018
2018
A Fold in Space

as Director

2018
2018
Sedation

as Director

2018
2018
To the Sea

as Director

2018
So We Dance

as Director

2018
Watchtower

as Director

2018
Carrot Boy

as Director

2018
Glacier

as Director

2018
Turnpike

as Director

2018
Cloudburst

as Director

2015
Stalk

as Director

2014
Dr. Grapefruit

as Director

2013
Reflections

as Director

Editor

Nobody

as Editor

2020
2020
La La La

as Editor

2020
Island

as Editor

2020
Fallen

as Editor

2020
2020
The Core of the Wood

as Color Grading

2020
Of the Wind

as Editor

2020
2019
Penumbra

as Editor

2019
Looking Glass

as Editor

2019
2019
2019
Epsilon

as Editor

2018
Sedation

as Editor

2018
2018
To the Sea

as Editor

2018
So We Dance

as Editor

2018
Watchtower

as Editor

2018
Turnpike

as Editor

2018
Carrot Boy

as Editor

2018
Glacier

as Editor

2014
Dr. Grapefruit

as Editor

2013
Reflections

as Editor

Sound

2020
A Lysergic Lullaby

as Sound Mixer

2020
2019
Penumbra

as Music

2019
2019
2018
Cloudburst

as Music

Crew

2019
Beneath the Path and Beyond

as Cinematography

2019
Unbalanced Redux

as Cinematography

2019
Phantom Mary

as Thanks

2014
Dr. Grapefruit

as Cinematography

2013
Reflections

as Cinematography

Writer

Nobody

as Writer

2018
A Fold in Space

as Writer

Actor

Nobody

as Eli Everson

Camera

Nobody

as Director of Photography