biography

Producer, director, animator, and actress Layla Hawker founded Spider Queen Studios in 2009 at the age of 10. She attended Denver School of the Arts for three years in the Video Cinema Arts program, where she directed and starred in the documentary The Autistic Snowflake, which won a national Scholastic Gold Key award, as well as the Grand Prize at the 2015 Steamboat Springs Film Festival. In addition to filmmaking, she also writes scripts, novels, short stories, and poetry. Layla has been singing and stage acting since she was in second grade, with four lead roles to her credit and four supporting roles.

Education

Awards

Grand Prize, Steamboat Springs Film Festival – 2015

For her documentary The Autistic Snowflake