Writing
Aaron G. Hale writes stories about wildly confident people making spectacularly questionable decisions.
His stories are filled with washed-up celebrities, self-appointed heroes, overzealous weirdos, and lovable idiots chasing impossible dreams with the unwavering confidence of someone who has completely misread the situation.
Drawn to characters who desperately want to matter, Aaron's work lives somewhere between heartfelt and ridiculous, finding comedy in oversized ambition, misplaced confidence, and the very human instinct to keep doubling down long after everyone else would have gone home.
No matter the genre, Aaron's work is driven by the belief that people are at their most interesting when they're chasing the version of themselves they desperately want to become... and at their funniest when they don't realize how absurd they look doing it.
Produced Work
Reggie & Rainbow
Credits
Produced by
Charles Landers
Written & Directed by
Aaron G. Hale
Associate Producer:
Colin Feldhaus
Cast:
Aaron G. Hale, Ashlie Adams, Luxy Banner,
Pineapple Tangaroa
* WINNER, Best Texas Actress - Ashlie Adams | Austin Revolution Film Festival 2024
* WINNER, Best Comedy | Austin Under the Stars Film Festival 2024
* NOMINATED, Texas Filmmaker of the Year - Aaron G. Hale | Austin Revolution Film Festival 2024
* NOMINATED, Best Texas Actor - Aaron G. Hale | Austin Revolution Film Festival 2024
* NOMINATED, Best Texas Short Comedy | Austin Revolution Film Festival 2024
* NOMINATED, Actor of the Year - Aaron G. Hale | Austin Revolution Film Festival 2024
* NOMINATED, Best Actor - Aaron G. Hale | L.A. Under the Stars Film Festival 2024
* NOMINATED, Best Comedy | L.A. Under the Stars Film Festival 2024
* NOMINATED, Best Cinematography - Raymond Cody Wyatt | L.A. Under the Stars Film Festival 2024
* NOMINATED, Best Ensemble Cast | L.A. Under the Stars Film Festival 2024
Awards
Javelina Run
Executive Produced by
Michael Goyette
Directed by
Lisa Belcher
Written by
Aaron G. Hale
Associate Producer:
Aaron G. Hale
Casting Director:
Aaron G. Hale
Cast:
Aaron G. Hale, Avery Merrifield, Lisa Belcher, Lorelei Linklater,
Wally Welch
Credits
* WINNER, Best Comedy | Wild Bunch Film Festival 2020
* WINNER, Best Poster - Chris Barnes | Wild Bunch Film Festival 2020
* WINNER, Best Supporting Actress (Short) - Lisa Belcher | Wild Bunch Film Festival 2020
* WINNER, Best Female Filmmaker - Lisa Belcher | Wild Bunch Film Festival 2020
* WINNER, Best Director - Lisa Belcher | Austin Spotlight Film Festival 2020
* WINNER, Best Original Score - Steffen Schmidt | Austin Under the Stars Film Festival 2020
* NOMINATED, Best Comedy | Beaufort International Film Festival 2021
* NOMINATED, Best Actor (Short) - Aaron G. Hale | Wild Bunch Film Festival 2020
* NOMINATED, Best Supporting Actor (Short) - Skeeta Jenkins | Wild Bunch Film Festival 2020
* NOMINATED, Best Actress (Short) - Lorelei Linklater | Wild Bunch Film Festival 2020
* NOMINATED, Best Produced Short Film | Wild Bunch Film Festival 2020
* NOMINATED, Best Narrator - Wally Welch | Wild Bunch Film Festival 2020
* NOMINATED, Best Short Film Cast Ensemble - Aaron G. Hale | Wild Bunch Film Festival 2020
Awards
Clementine
Credits
Produced by
Aaron G. Hale
Directed by
Aaron G. Hale & Ross Wooten
Written by
Aaron G. Hale
Story by
Aaron G. Hale & Ross Wooten
Cast:
Aaron G. Hale, Allison Day
WINNER, Best in Show - Short Film | Austin Revolution Film Festival 2018
* WINNER, Audience Choice - Short Film | Austin Revolution Film Festival 2018
* WINNER, Best Texas Actor - Aaron G. Hale | Austin Revolution Film Festival 2018
* WINNER, Best Actor - Aaron G. Hale | Austin Under the Stars Film Festival 2018
* WINNER, Best Comedy Short | Austin Under the Stars Film Festival 2018
* WINNER, M. Night Shyamalan Award for Best Twist | Austin Under the Stars Film Festival 2018
* WINNER, Audience Choice Award | Flatland Film Festival 2018
* WINNER, Judge’s Choice Award | Flatland Film Festival 2018
* NOMINATED, Texas Filmmaker of the Year | Austin Revolution Film Festival 2018
* NOMINATED, Margaret Ann Garza Acting Award - Aaron G. Hale | Austin Revolution Film Festival 2018
* NOMINATED, Keep Austin Weird Award | Austin Under the Stars Film Festival 2018
Awards
Development Slate
CORY IN ORBIT (Mockumentary Comedy Feature)
Cory Quaid was a teen idol in the ‘90s thanks to Cory in Orbit, a cheesy sci-fi sitcom that aired somewhere between TGIF and Nickelodeon. Now pushing 40, washed up, and still clinging to his former fame, Cory sees a chance at a comeback when a TikTok mocking the show goes viral. He recruits the president of his old fan club to help relaunch his career—despite having zero idea how. As a documentary crew follows the chaos, Cory’s delusion, desperation, and deep need for connection begin to collide in a hilariously tragic quest for relevance.
Waiting for Guffman meets Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping with the sad-sack sweetness of American Movie.
Tagline: Every star burns out. Some just don’t know when to quit.
Tone: Cringe-funny, heartfelt, and deeply unserious — a mockumentary about fame, failure, and the world’s most awkward re-entry.
MATERIALS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
DEEP CUTS (TV Dramedy Pilot)
Laila, a grieving and fiery Arab-American music producer, leaves LA post-divorce and ends up in East Nashville crashing with Davey, her childhood best friend — a repressed former Christian Pop bassist turned real estate agent who’s just come out. Together, they stumble through the spiritual and emotional wreckage of mid-30s life: grief, reinvention, dating apps, music scenes, ex-religion wounds, and chosen family.
Fleabag meets High Fidelity, but more soulful, less cynical.
Tagline: When you lose your voice, pick up a mic.
Tone: Emotional, grounded, poetic — with room for music as healing and catharsis.
Co-written with Nathan Nix & Latifah Alattas
MATERIALS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
DOBIE WAKES UP (Comedy Feature)
After falling into a coma at age 10, Dobie wakes up 30 years later in a 40-year-old body—with the emotional intelligence, pop culture references, and snack preferences of a child. When he learns his wealthy family’s estate hinges on him proving he's a capable adult, Dobie must fake his way through grown-up life, even as his inner kid keeps bursting through.
Big meets Succession by way of Napoleon Dynamite.
Tagline: Growing up is hard. Growing up all at once is harder.
Tone: Offbeat, heartfelt, and surreal — a coming-of-middle-age story about identity, arrested development, and growing up way too late.
MATERIALS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
FLATWOODS (Sci-Fi, Coming-of-Age Drama Feature)
In the Summer of 1952, three thirteen-year-old boys venture into the Appalachian woods outside Flatwoods, West Virginia searching for a rumored stash of hidden porno magazines — hoping to finally unlock the secrets of girls, adulthood, and what it means to become men. But as strange lights begin appearing beyond the trees and their childish bravado starts to crack, the boys find themselves drawn toward an encounter that will bind them together forever.
Stand by Me meets Close Encounters of the Third Kind by way of 1950s pulp sci-fi Americana.
Tagline: Some secrets make you grow up.
Tone: Nostalgic, eerie, funny, and emotionally sincere — a cosmic coming-of-age mystery about boyhood, masculinity, friendship, and the unknowable things that shape us forever. Blending the warmth and awkwardness of adolescent adventure with the transcendent awe of classic UFO folklore, FLATWOODS treats its supernatural encounter not as horror to survive, but as a profound emotional experience that quietly alters the boys’ understanding of themselves and the world around them.
MATERIALS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
THE READING (Horror Feature)
In 1980s suburbia, a goth teen reluctantly takes over her aunt’s palm reading booth and her first customer is the worst: a smirking, sexist jock from school. But as she reads his palm, real visions begin to flood in — disturbing, violent ones — and the horrors she sees may not be far off.
Carrie meets Suspiria (1977) with the attitude of Jennifer’s Body.
Tagline: Sometimes the scariest thing isn’t what you see… it’s what you can’t unsee.
Tone: Stylized, unsettling, and vividly retro — a feminist horror throwback soaked in neon dread and teen rage.
MATERIALS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST