Josh Hayes, an outstanding documentary filmmaker.

Josh moved to San Francisco to pursue a degree in Cinema Production in 2005, but was born and raised in a small town of Southern California. He’s been a Cinematographer, Editor, and Director ever since for a variety of companies including his own Upstart Media. Josh’s experience has run the gamut of production, having worked with companies and artists as large as Google, Facebook, YouTube, Turner Sports Network, Cypress Hill, Moby, and Santogold, as well as small bootstrapped startups, non-profits, mom and pop organizations, and everything in between.

Josh Hayes is also the creator of award-winning documentary, The Invisible Class.

The production of this film began in 2008 and was an 11 year journey to complete. With a smaller team than most documentary films and an even smaller budget, the crew pressed on due to their passion for the topic. The film was originally created for two specific reasons.

1. There were almost no documentary films on homelessness out there.
2. From the small list of documentaries that were available, none of them discussed the systemic causes that created mass homelessness. How did we get here?

Josh shared about:

• How he found freedom and creativity to sore despite of growing up with rebelliousness, drugs, incarceration
• Creating his award-winning documentary films
• The story behind the film The Invisible Class