Dominic Haxton

Dominic Haxton holds a BA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California. Since graduating, he has made four short films that include Teens Like Phil (Boys on Film 10), We Are Animals (Boys on Film 11), Tonight It’s Me (Boys on Film 12), and most recently Chaining Day which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival this year. Haxton’s goal as a filmmaker is to continue making dramatic, thought-provoking work that addresses socially relevant issues; stories that are made for a wider audience in order to promote tolerance, acceptance, and socio-political change.

Dominic Haxton grew up in Sonoma County, CA. He holds a BA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California. Since graduating, he has worked on several television shows and films including the Academy Award winning feature, The Help (2011). His short film, Teens Like Phil (2011), which deals with high school bullying, has won four awards to date and played at over 40 film festivals around the world, including LACMA’s Young Director’s Night. Haxton’s goal as a filmmaker is to continue making dramatic and thought-provoking work that addresses socially relevant issues.

Dominic Haxton was born and raised in Sonoma County, CA, the heart of Northern California’s wine country. While in high school, he became interested in film after writing an English paper on Elia Kazan’s influence on the 20th century, particularly in regards to how his films dealt with social issues. Using Kazan as inspiration, he starting making short videos that explored issues relating to the racial and socio-economic divide that exist in the community between the Hispanic immigrants who work in the wine vineyards and the Caucasian suburbanites who populate this region. Thanks to the exposure and recognition from these videos, he was awarded a college academic scholarship from the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. This scholarship gave him the life-changing opportunity to pursue his filmmaking aspirations at the University of Southern California’s prestigious film school.

Since graduating from USC film school, Haxton has worked on several TV shows and films, including the Academy Award winning feature, The Help. His recent short film, Teens Like Phil, about high school bullying has won three awards to date and played at over 30 film festivals around the world, including LACMA’s Young Director’s Night. Haxton’s goal as a filmmaker is to continue making dramatic, thought-provoking work that addresses socially relevant issues; films that are made for a wider audience in order to promote tolerance, acceptance, and social/political change.