Peter Hawley Film Archive

In the fall of 2008 I produced a nice (in my humble opinion) short film written and directed by my friend Harper Philbin.   The film was in some festivals, and we had a blast making it.  In fact it

Among my favorite projects for Wiss Janney Elster was shooting at the historic Salk Institute in LaJolla, CA. I did this project with my Crosstown Productions partner, Dan Lerner. The D.P. was from my school in L.A., Columbia College Hollywood,

I have done a lot of work for Wiss Janney Elstner, but in 2006 I was able to produce a film for their 50th anniversary. It screened at the Museum of Science and Industry in May 2006. Here is a

This was my one and only foray into Infomercials.  It was a lot of fun- and a lot of work.  I wrote and directed and co-produced.  There was a lot of narrative work so that was fine.  I guess that’s

Denny Dent, and his wife Ali, were key players in my development as a filmmaker. Ultimately I filmed him 4 times, all with my Northwestern pal and DP on Victimess Crimes, Stephan Fopeano shooting. You can read more here.

If I was to trace where my film career came from, I go to three projects. 1) The Niteskool Project music videos I did while a student at Northwestern. 2) The Denny Dent films-the longer and the shorter version, and

This is a pilot for a cooking show I made for my friend Janine MacLachlan. It didn’t go anywhere, but I always thought it was a nice piece of filmmaking. Janine did great. Again I was working with my friends

For 20 years I have done work for WJE, the Northbrook, IL based engineer, architect, and material science firm. Over that time a made a film for their 50th anniversary, their 60th anniversary, several promotional films, and this during the

I directed this music video in 2007. It was part of Production in Action. The band, psychodots, is from Cincinnati. It was a blast.

Every now and then you are in the right place at the right time. In 2011 this TV spot literally dropped in my lap. We wrote, produced, shot and edited, and have a killer voice over from Jeff Morrow, the