{"id":9493,"date":"2020-05-25T08:18:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T07:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lailasnews.com\/international\/?p=9493"},"modified":"2020-07-15T13:26:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T12:26:41","slug":"eli-hayes-dead-death-obituary-filmmaker-eli-hayes-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lailasnews.com\/international\/eli-hayes-dead-death-obituary-filmmaker-eli-hayes-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Hayes death: What happened to Filmmaker Eli Hayes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eli Hayes dead, cause of death, obituary, funeral plans: Filmmaker Eli Hayes died May 2020 of a possible suicide.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Eli<\/p>\n

Eli Hayes had been struggling with depression.<\/p>\n

A tweet from his close friend James Healey announced Eli Hayes death in a post on Twitter that read:<\/p>\n

I just found out Eli Hayes has been found dead. We used to be close friends and I want to share some words and pictures. RIP brother.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/BadHealey\/status\/1264572915275661314<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Eli Grier Hayes was born on November 5th, 1993 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He fell in love with cinema at an early age upon viewing the works of directors such as James Benning and Chantal Akerman.<\/p>\n

Eli began screenwriting as he entered high school, and directed his first short films, “Dancing with Shadows” and “Nobody,” during his senior year.<\/p>\n

While enrolled at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York — where he received his bachelor’s degree in abnormal psychology, with a minor in creative writing — he founded Hazel Eye Productions.<\/p>\n

Eli has since directed, produced & edited more than twenty feature films, and approximately forty short films. His work has been screened at over seventy festivals across six continents, including The Beijing International Short Film Festival, Hell’s Half Mile Film & Music Festival, The Pune Short Film Festival, The Cannes International Film Festival’s Court M\u00e9trage, The Princeton Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival Melbourne, and The Milwaukee Short Film Festival, as well as venues such as Anthology Film Archives and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.<\/p>\n

In 2017, he graduated from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee with a master’s degree in film & creative media, and went on to become the Project Manager at The Nashville Film Institute.<\/p>\n

Eli recently relocated back to his home city of Milwaukee, where he was working on several different projects, both short form and feature length. before his sudden death.<\/p>\n

Touching tributes online described Eli Hayes as one of the most insightful writers on Letterboxd, a great filmmaker and just a genuinely great guy all around.<\/p>\n

Please say a prayer<\/a> for his family and friends as you read below.<\/p>\n

The online film community lost a giant today. He touched so many lives, everyone knew Eli at least a tiny bit.<\/p>\n

Many of us, including myself, haven’t seen his short films. Happy to have his Vimeo available to remember him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n