Sydney Hayward ]
Nicole Hayward Filmmakers
BIOGRAPHY
Sydney Hayward
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Sydney (They/them) is a director/scriptwriter/production designer who has a strong interest for film, art, music and theatre. Their most recent work was directing the short film "After The Glitter Fades" which follows a young non-binary performer after they get catcalled at one of their concerts as well as another short film "If Only You Knew", that has been accepted to the Toronto Queer Film Festival.
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Sydney has also worked on various short films such as "Deeper Than Blue", "We Need To Talk", Weekender". They are currently in the process of crowdfunding and writing their second feature length film , having written their first feature with their sister at age 15.
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Sydney hopes that their films will inspire others the way that they have been inspired and hopes that when people watch their films, they feel a little less alone in what they are going through.
Nicole Hayward
Nicole is a /producer/ screenwriter/director whose mission is to tell stories about people who are different and stand out from the crowd.
Storytelling in general whether it's through theater, music or film allows Nicole to express herself and learn more about the world from the stories she tells. Nicole is passionate about theatre, writing, and film and wrote her first full-length screenplay with her sister when she was 15 years old.
She has many years of experience working in community theater and loves to help people whenever she can. Most recently she directed the short documentary "Heart of Rhythm" and produced the short documentary "Deeper Than Blue" which was chosen as an official selection in the Gen Z Film Festival and the Hamilton Youth Film Festival. Currently, she is working on several screenplays and hopes to bring her song cycle for the stage "On the Outside" to the Sheridan Musical theater program and is currently producing a PSA about skateboarding company "Babes Brigade" and Producer/ 1st Ad on a short film which she wrote titled "After the Glitter Fades".
FILMOGRAPHY
IF ONLY YOU KNEW
March 2020
COMING SOON
AFTER THE GLITTER FADES
March 2021
COMING SOON
Babes
Brigade
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BABES BRIGADE
October 2020
PSA about skateboarding company "Babes Brigade.
DEEPER THAN BLUE
January 2020
“Deeper Than Blue” explores a shadowed medical crisis that affects mothers called postpartum depression. Told through Amanda Munday; her heartbreaking and empowering story of her experience with postpartum depression following the birth of her daughter Fiona.
HEARTBEAT
March 2019
"heartbeat." is a short film about a young drummer who is waiting for the audition of his dreams. While waiting, he sees a young woman who he has been longing to make a connection with.
Heartbeat
Directed By Sara Hayward
HEART OF RHYTHM
April 2019
"Heart of Rhythm" is short documentary focused on Kelly-Ann Johnson, a growing dancer, model and choreographer in Toronto who dreams of leaving a different mark in the art world.
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ROSIE
February 2019
After becoming tired of her life as a waitress Rosie (Julia Krikorian) decides to tell her best friend Emery (Sara Hayward) she is leaving to go to New York to pursue her dreams of being a writer in the best way she knows how, by writing a letter to her.