Josh Hayes

Work hard. Play hard. Help others.

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Born and raised in a small town in Southern California, Josh moved to San Francisco to pursue a degree in Cinema Production in 2005. He's been a Cinematographer, Editor, and Director ever since for a variety of companies including his own Upstart Media. Josh’s experience has run the gamut of production, having worked with companies and artists as large as Google, Facebook, YouTube, Turner Sports Network, Cypress Hill, Moby, and Santogold, as well as small bootstrapped startups, non-profits, mom and pop organizations, and everything in between.

Josh also runs a small non-profit, entitled Visual Anarchy. Its goal is to level the playing field “one video at a time” for smaller non-profits, philanthropic organizations, and other charitable organizations that have a need for quality video content, but would otherwise lack the resources to produce it. In addition to video creation, they also provide video equipment training as well.

Though he has spent the majority of his time behind the camera, being a former professional MMA athlete and being featured as the subject of a MTV True Life Documentary has yielded him a few interesting opportunities along the way, from some stunt work, to small roles of the “tough guy” variety, to martial arts choreography and even cartoon voiceover work. It can truly be said Josh is eclectic in his love for all things Cinema.

From a recreational standpoint Josh is an avid nature goer and frequently voyages into the backcountry to reset and relax. He's also a guide from time to time providing that same experience to others. Josh is a fervent runner, long distance bike rider, as well as a triathlete.

His biggest passion is also his first feature length documentary entitled The Invisible Class about homelessness in America.

Director (1 Credit)
The Invisible Class2019
Documentary

College

San Francisco State University

Cinema Production

2002 – 2005

Current City

San Francisco

-Was the star of an MTV True Life Documentary.
-Is a former professional MMA Athlete.

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."
Bruce Lee

“What I Have Lived For" (Bertrand Russel biography quote)

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.”
Bertrand Rusell