Suki Hawley is an American indie filmmaker and a partner in the production and distribution company RUMUR.

[1] Either solo or with Michael Galinsky, she has directed low-budget fictional narratives but has mostly concentrated on documentaries in recent years.

After graduating from college, Hawley moved to Los Angeles where she worked as an assistant editor in the cutting room of Roger Corman’s Venice studio.

[1] Hawley served as co-director and editor of Half-Cocked (film) (1994), Radiation[7] (1999), Lee Hazlewood in New York [8] (2001), Horns and Halos (film) (2002), Code 33[9] (2005), Miami Manhunt[10] (2008), Battle for Brooklyn (2011), Who Took Johnny [11] (2013), 30 for 30 Shorts: The Sweat Solution[12] (2015), All the Rage: Saved by Sarno (2016),[13] Working in Protest[14](2017), and The Commons[15] (2019).

[5] Their film Who Took Johnny (2014) was included in Artforum International’s annual top 10 by John Waters who called it “An amazing, lunatic head-scratcher of a documentary about missing children with plot twists that will leave you creeped out, surprised, and excited.