"Telling a compelling visual story with moving pictures is the ultimate in the creative process. The opportunity to stir emotions, provoke thought and affect change through the film genre keeps me inspired frame to frame."
"I write, direct, and edit the majority of the films I produce to ensure my creative vision. However; more often than not, there are those magical moments on location when the actor, landscape and or props inspire me to move in a different creative direction which makes the scene come together in perfect harmony. That is the creation process in motion and I am blessed to witness it on a continual basis. In 2015, I established VERO 8 PICTURES; a production company powered by creative talents specializing in dramatic films, and music videos."
ALICIA HAYES
ACTRESS
Filmmaker | Director | Writer | Photographer
Alicia Hayes is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, director, producer, and editor whose work is driven by a fascination with truth, memory, humanity, and the places that shape the world.
As founder of VERO 8 Pictures, Hayes develops cinematic narrative and documentary projects for global audiences, approaching each film with a strong visual identity and a belief that the most powerful stories are often found in the details others overlook. Her work favors atmosphere over excess, restraint over explanation, and images that stay with the viewer long after the screen goes dark.
Her films explore subjects ranging from history and human behavior to grief, faith, justice, identity, and place. Whether working with archival material, intimate narrative storytelling, or international destination filmmaking, Hayes is drawn to stories that reveal something beneath the surface — something emotionally honest, visually striking, and difficult to forget.
Her creative background extends across photography, performance, visual art, radio, and production, giving her filmmaking a distinctly multidisciplinary sensibility. She is also the great-niece of acclaimed animator and painter Tom Ray, whose career included work on some of the most enduring animated productions of the twentieth century. From 2023–2026, Alicia Hayes served as an official Emmy® judge across multiple regional chapters, including Heartland, New York, Suncoast, Lone Star, and Rocky Mountain Southwest.
Through VERO 8 Pictures, she continues to expand her work into ambitious new territory, including THE WORLD UNVEILED, an original cinematic destination series created to explore extraordinary places through culture, landscape, history, architecture, and human experience.
For Hayes, filmmaking is not simply about documenting what is in front of the camera.
It is about discovering what is hidden beneath it.
“Imagination is the language of creation.”
by Jonathan Lindenhall
Film is where image, sound, performance, and emotion converge. It is the medium that allows me to shape a moment, challenge perception, and create something that can remain with an audience long after the final frame.
I write, direct, produce, and edit much of my work so the creative vision remains cohesive from conception through final cut. But some of the most powerful moments happen unexpectedly — when a performance, a location, a shift in light, or a detail within the frame changes the direction of a scene. That instinctive response is part of what I love most about filmmaking.
In 2015, I founded VERO 8 PICTURES as an independent production company dedicated to cinematic storytelling across narrative film, documentary, and original series.
"MADGE" is dedicated to the incredible voice and spirit of Angèlia Grace and her song 'Equilibrium'. Thank you for
inspiring others with your talent and your inner light that shines bright in a dark world.
Alicia Hayes directing Tori Archer in her debut role as Violet, the lead character, in the film Living Colors.
On the set of Living Colors: Director/Producer Alicia Hayes, Cinematographer Josh Irwin, Sound Mixer Juan Aradondo, with lead actor Nick Wilder as Vincent.