Spencer Hawken
Bio
A multi-award nominated filmmaker with a passion for travel, film, finance and social media.
Stories (29/0)
My Sister Killed me
My sister and I never got on, from a very early age she had issue with me, as a child I understood that it was probably the five years difference between us and that this was how older children treated one another. I think its safe to say I was abused by my sister in a variety of ways probably best not discussed in this forum. There were systematic weird attacks sometimes just for the sake of it, sometimes to cause me extreme hurt both mentally and physically. From framing me for things I never did, to just attacking me to make me cry, my young years were a continual turmoil of abuse at the hands of the very person who I later understood should really have been protecting me.
By Spencer Hawken2 years ago in Families
The time I became an Instagram influencer
As I began shooting my first movie in 2013 one of the crew leaned over to me and said “You should post behind the scenes (or BTS) photos on Instagram”, I looked back “Instawhat?” was my reply. I missed the whole Myspace thing and reluctantly joined Facebook around 2009 after several years resistance, I joined just to see photographs from an event I attended. I picked up on Twitter quite late and then what? Another social media channel I needed to pick up. But rather than chiming in late it seemed I was in the right place at the right time. The problem being I did not have the interest or the understanding and despite the futile effort I had a couple of stabs at it in 2014, with little interest.
By Spencer Hawken2 years ago in Lifehack
Why continual headaches might reveal you have Coeliac Disease
The chances are that right up to the 2000’s you will not have heard of Coeliac Disease. While more and more people are now diagnosed with the condition its not a new illness, its always been here but relatively recent scientific revelations mean that a Coeliac diagnosis can mean the difference between life and death.
By Spencer Hawken2 years ago in Humans
While a squirrel picnic table is not as ridiculous as it sounds
In 2020 the whole world spent more time at home, during which time my girlfriend and I used our ground floor balcony as a way of welcoming the wildlife. At first it was a selection of pigeons, swallows, magpies, wrens, blue tits and robins. But as the year moved on our favourite visitor arrived, Bryan the Squirrel. Bryan became a high point of our day but his visits were always quite limited, that was of course until we added a little addition for him.
By Spencer Hawken2 years ago in Petlife
Is Amazon Prime The Place For Your Movie?
It might sound silly but making a movie is relatively easy nowadays, as long as you have the ability or opportunity to get your movie edited and colour graded with good sound you’re flying. The downfall of this dream ends the minute your movie is finished, because then you need the ability to sell, yourself that is.
By Spencer Hawken2 years ago in Journal
