ABOUT
Making art is how I work through things; filmmaking became my chosen medium after a childhood fascination with art and cameras and scribbling stories in notebooks before I could spell the words correctly.
My films are focused on female stories, I especially like to explore female friendships, in all their fearless, flawed, fulfilling multitudes. How we hurt and get hurt, but also how we can change and grow. I’m interested in queer womanhood and the search for joy, hope, and pleasure. As an eldest sister, I’m interested in sibling dynamics, the complexities of the longest relationships of our lives.
My films tend to be horribly personal, putting them out into the world feels like offering my heart up on a platter, hoping to be understood. It’s the most gratifying thing when people can relate to what I’ve created.
Beyond my art, I like swim and dance and hike and bike and climb. I’m trying to return to the voracious reader I was as a kid, reading books as if the words were oxygen to live. I scrawl potential lines on sticky notes above my desk and have a fascination with old analog cameras and I collect words like currency, hoping something, something will come of it.
Haley is an Evvy Award winning writer and director, located in Los Angeles. She was born and raised in California's South Bay, with an interlude of studying film in Boston at Emerson College. Her work focuses on female-centric interpersonal and inter-community stories.