After directing four award-winning short films, Bradley Hawkins continues to build momentum as an indie filmmaker at age 66 and is now taking stock of what he values most.

“I’m getting to a point in my life where I want to be bolder about my faith in the cinematic stories that I feel led to tell,” says Hawkins. “Those that know me best are aware how much my faith means to me, and I want that part of me to be reflected more clearly in each film I make from here on out, for as long as God grants me the health and strength to do so.”

Inspiration struck Hawkins for a new short film concept while attending the International Christian Film Festival held in Orlando, FL in May of 2021. Being one of the older filmmakers at the festival, and as a senior with multiple health issues of his own, Hawkins often reflected during the four-day festival that “Each day we are given is a gift, and we are not promised another.”

With the story nearly formed in his mind’s eye, on Memorial Day of 2021, Hawkins called his longtime writing partner, screenwriter, and playwright, Peter Fenton, and pitched him the Night Voices story. Hawkins and Fenton had previously collaborated as co-writers on both the Dadley Productions comedy-fantasy short, Filling In, and another yet-to-be-produced short film. By July 2021, the writing team had completed the first draft of the Night Voices screenplay and continued to tweak it through that summer.

Night Voices is a short character study into the darkest depths of Jude Wilcox, a jaded late-night talk radio host stuck in a cycle of hopelessly demoralizing monotony, who makes a life-altering decision while on-air. “The really cool thing to me about it [Night Voices] is that the screenplay pushes the boundaries of ‘What can a Dadley Productions film be?’,” Fenton said with a laugh. “It’s a psychological thriller, and so wholly unlike anything that’s come before in Hawk’s filmography… yet at the same time, it’s still unmistakably a ‘Dadley’ film.”