Behind the Scenes
Director Chloe Hayward on Challenging Beauty Standards and Creating Authenticity
More than a camera or a script or a release strategy, the most fundamental tool for any film is your perspective. It’s the umbrella for your production, informing everything from the casting process to the way you tell people about it at parties. Your perspective is your film.
Director Chloe Hayward embodies this notion perfectly. As a model and actress since the age of 15, with plenty of good and bad experiences under her belt, Hayward wields a deeply personal perspective on beauty. It’s that richly informed perspective that makes her film Between the Years so powerfully authentic.
Between the Years is a subtle, nuanced examination of the many ways women experience community through their own beautifying process. And while it’s a meditative and quiet film, the question at the core of Between the Years is presented with supreme confidence and clarity: What is real beauty?
To answer that question, among many others, here’s director Chloe Hayward.
