Evan Hayes is an Academy Award-winning producer and a partner at ACE Content, based in Los Angeles. He has worked on over 30 films or series across a range of budgets & genres through his almost two-decade career.Evan most recently produced the Oscar & BAFTA-winning documentary “Free Solo.” He is currently in production on two feature documentaries; “Cousteau” for National Geographic with Liz Garbus directing; and an untitled project on Kris Tompkins and Tompkins Conservation also for National Geographic with E. Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin. He is also working on “The Helicopter Heist” with Jake Gyllenhaal for Netflix and “The White Room” with Amblin Partners, among many others.
Before joining ACE in 2018, Hayes served as President of Production at Parkes+MacDonald/Image Nation. Prior to that, Hayes was President of Production at Story Mining & Supply Co. where he oversaw the Starz original series “Outlander” among others.
Hayes also spent eleven years at Working Title Films where he worked as a producer or executive on such films as “Everest,” “Les Miserables,” “Contraband,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” “State of Play,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Senna,” “A Serious Man,” “Burn After Reading,” “Hot Fuzz,” “Atonement,” and “United 93.”