ABOUT
Hi, I'm Haley.
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. I’m still trying to figure out what it means to grow up, my past and future selves haunting each other. I try to do this through touches of magical realism, asking questions of things that I don’t quite know the answers to yet. 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. Blame it on my age, but I still like to look at things through a hopeful lens. I like to believe we can do better.
Beyond my art, I like to watch sunsets, by screaming my favorite songs as I drive along the California coast or walking west through Boston as if I can catch the pink of the sky in my hands. I’m trying to return to the voracious reader I was as a kid, reading books as if the words were oxygen to live. When I’m home I try to spend as much time as I can in the sea, the horizon of the Pacific is full of possibilities. 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 a writer and director, born and raised in California’s South Bay and currently attending Emerson College. Her work focuses on female-centric interpersonal and intercommunity stories.