Zeke and Simon Hawkins

Their directorial feature Bad Turn Worse won the Audience Award for American Independents at AFI Fest.

[1] The Hawkins brothers directed the 2013 film Bad Turn Worse, originally titled We Gotta Get Out of This Place with Simon as editor.

[7] Spending more than two months living in Texas,[8] the Hawkins brothers' interest in the horizontal landscape and low-rise architecture of the area[9] became a key part of the film.

Todd Gilchrist of IndieWire noted the film "offers the kind of clean, elegant storytelling whose emotional impact eclipses the cosmetic horrors of its counterparts while announcing the arrival of considerable new filmmaking talents.

[10] Bad Turn Worse was released theatrically on November 14, 2013[11] and was acquired by Starz.