Author: Peter Hawley

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

I did this spot with a couple of former students. They did the heavy lifting, I just produced and worked with the client. It was my first deep experience using a DSLR and serious After Effects. Great work Andy and

This is an old reel, but these are some of my favorite spots I directed.  Of course it all started with Denny Dent, you can read that story and see the long version here. Commercials from Peter Hawley on Vimeo.

This was a fun one. I got to help out my friends Beth and Scott Bierko. We filmed a live concert outside of New York City. Editing was my friend Jennifer Mayer, and lead cinematographer was my friend Jim Morrissette

In 1984 when I was a student at Northwestern University, I was part of a group of students that created the Niteskool Project.  I am pleased to say Niteskool continues today at Northwestern.  We set out to make a record