Hayden is a filmmaker passionate about grassroots storytelling and cinema with heart. His work takes a holistic narrative/production approach that prioritises impact — telling stories that facilitate expression and representation, 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 graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film & Television), and is now working as a creative & film director with RD Content in London.