Alicia Hayes is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, director, producer, and editor whose work explores memory, faith, justice, identity, and the human condition. Her films are defined by atmospheric visual storytelling, emotional restraint, and a cinematic style that favors image, silence, and subtext over exposition.

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Hayes began her career in broadcasting in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas before transitioning into the entertainment industry as a professional makeup artist. Years spent on film sets became an informal apprenticeship, giving her the opportunity to study directors, performance, production, and visual storytelling from the inside. She later founded VERO 8 Pictures as the home for her original narrative and documentary work.

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Her creative work spans intimate human stories, historical subjects, faith, science, social justice, and documentary filmmaking. Through VERO 8 Pictures, Hayes continues to develop distinctive projects for festival, theatrical, digital, and international audiences.

Her great-uncle was renowned animator and painter Tom Ray, whose work contributed to the golden era of Warner Bros. animation.

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Hayes approaches filmmaking as both craft and inquiry—using cinema to examine the forces that shape belief, memory, morality, and the way people understand one another.

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