Hayden is a filmmaker and creative producer passionate about grassroots storytelling and cinema with heart. His work takes a holistic narrative/production approach that priorities impact — telling stories that facilitate expression and representation, and utilising production techniques that serve to engage community while diversifying industry. Having emerged with documentary works before developing his narrative sensibility and with a multidisciplinary background in music and design, he is interested in how this convergence of influences can bring macro ideas to a micro scale.

In 2023, Hayden will graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film & Television), and is seeking to develop the next stage of his career in Europe throughout 2024.