Caleb Hatton is a filmmaker, photographer, and wheat farmer based in rural Utah. With over fifteen years of experience, his work spans narrative, documentary, and branded projects, often blending cinematic rigor with lived experience in remote and overlooked places.
Hatton’s filmmaking has taken him from horse-powered wheat fields in the American West to the canyons of northern Mexico, where he has spent years documenting the lives of the Rarámuri. He produced the feature film Chicken Coop and is currently writing and directing Desert Silence, a narrative feature developed under the self-imposed constraints of the “Conspiracy 25” movement.
In 2024, Hatton studied under Werner Herzog in the Canary Islands, an experience that continues to shape his approach to cinema, seeking truth through moments of endurance, poetry, and the raw presence of life.
Beyond filmmaking, Hatton runs a small wheat farm with his family, integrating homesteading and traditional farming practices into his creative life. He is the founder of Pistolero Productions and the YouTube channel Pistol & Plow Films, where he explores the intersection of survival, tradition, and storytelling. Fluent in Spanish and equally at home in Utah or Mexico’s Sierra Madre, Hatton brings a rare combination of cross-cultural experience, cinematic craft, and personal grit to his films.
