Author: Elliott Hasler

Elliott Hasler is the UK's Youngest Film Director, having completed his first feature, 'Charlie's Letters', aged 16 after a 3 year production. The film received critical acclaim, lauded by critics as a "miracle", with Culture Trip's Graham Fuller citing Hasler as "the next Spielberg". In July 2019, Hasler was flown to the Maldives by the Soneva Hotel Group to showcase his work. He is also currently developing a second feature about the first English woman to swim the Channel.

Becoming a Self Taught Filmmaker at Age Sixteen

In 2017, aged sixteen years old my debut feature, ‘WWII: The Long Road Home’, premiered at the Brighton and Edinburgh festivals after some three years of quite literal blood toil and sweat spent during production of the zero-budget feature (I was fourteen years old at the start). Little did I know that three years later […]

What it’s Like to be the UK’s Youngest Film Director

My name is Elliott Hasler. At 16 I was the UK’s youngest film director. Now, I’m an 18 year old film director and writer. I’m writing this blog post sitting beside the pool in a beach-side villa at the Maldives’ no.1 resort, Soneva Jani. Last night my most recent film, ‘To Hunt a Tiger’, had […]

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