About Elliott Hasler
Elliott Hasler is the UK's Youngest Film Director and the most exciting emerging filmmaking talent within the UK, having completed his first feature, 'WWII: The Long Road Home', aged 16 after a 3 year production. 'The Long Road Home' screened at the Edinburgh and Brighton Festivals, where it received critical acclaim and was lauded by critics as a "miracle", with Culture Trip's Graham Fuller citing Hasler as "the next Spielberg". Hasler will follow the success of his debut feature with his next project, ‘Vindication Swim’, a biopic about Mercedes Gleitze who in 1927 became about the first British woman to swim the English Channel.
by Elliott Hasler | 5 October, 2020 | Directing, Festivals, Film History, Filmmaking
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...
by Elliott Hasler | 1 August, 2019 | Filmmaking Career
My name is Elliott Hasler, 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 its world premiere at...
