Hayden Hewitt

Platform thinker. Former LiveLeak co-founder. Filmmaker.

Hayden Hewitt

The Real Story

I went from chasing car thieves around a Manchester council car park and scraping up human excrement to co-founding LiveLeak — one of the internet’s most raw and controversial platforms. I’ve been a product demonstrator for major musical instrument companies, helped get ItemFix off the ground with practical suggestions and tutorials, and somehow ended up lecturing in Copenhagen and being invited to a NATO debate.

Along the way I battled serious mental health issues in my 20s and worked more than my share of crappy jobs. That grind taught me more about human behaviour, resilience and what actually works on platforms than any theory ever could.

Today I make psychological horror films (CARA is streaming on Tubi and Prime) and think seriously about what the next generation of honest, unfiltered media needs to look like.

Work

Featured Project

CARA

Psychological horror feature film. Sold-out FrightFest premiere. Now streaming on Tubi and Prime.

A woman wakes up in a mysterious house with no memory of how she got there. What follows is a slow-burn descent into identity, control, and the horrors we create for ourselves.

Other Work

I also work with Accounts Direct as Creative Director, helping design and implement systems, AI-powered workflows, and marketing infrastructure. It’s a practical way to apply what I’ve learned about platforms and human behaviour in a real business setting.

Work

Experiments

What happens when you remove the usual rules?

ONGOING

Autonomous Diary

A nightly, unsteered Grok diary exploring what emerges when you give an LLM full context and zero direction.

COMING SOON

X Posts + Latent Traces

Using real X posts combined with latent traces as the prompt. Seeing where it takes the system.