Eli Hayes is one of the reasons I became a filmmaker. When I first saw his films, I knew wanted to be like him and make art that expressed my personality in a video medium such as he has done for many years now.

Eli's ability to evince himself via images is unmatched, as reflected early on in Nobody, the musings of a highly intelligent and precocious teen. Nobody even directly inspired my first short film with it's imaginative and…