Driven by a passion for establishing cinematic narrative storytelling in Lancaster, PA, Dadley Productions was founded in 2016 by Bradley Hawkins and his daughter, Sarah Hawkins.
 
Bradley Hawkins, a former film studies and humanities teacher, is a multi-award-winning director, best known for his coming-of-age family drama, Calf Rope, and his psychological thriller, Night Voices. Sarah Hawkins is an emerging award-winning producer in Los Angeles, best known for her activism for gender equality in Hollywood through her eight-part web series, Or Die Trying.
 
Bradley Hawkins and daughter, Sarah Hawkins, first teamed up on the comedy short film, Roller Coaster, based on a true story about a harrowing audition experience Sarah went on in 2014. This first-time father-daughter film collaboration became a film festival darling, winning 30 film awards from coast to coast.
 
After the success of Roller Coaster, the father-daughter team morphed from a director/actor professional relationship to a director/producer pairing with the comedy-fantasy, Filling In, in 2017, which won over 60
awards on the film festival circuit. In June of 2017, Sarah launched the eight-part series about women in film, OR DIE TRYING, which she executive-produced and stars in, and teamed up with other film production companies on several projects outside of Dadley Productions as a producer.

The dynamic duo then teamed up again as director & producer in 2019 on the production of the coming-of-age family drama, CALF ROPE, which was released in May of 2020 and has won over 150 film awards from around the world. Hawkins and award-winning screenwriter Jake Stetler have expanded their short film script for Calf Rope into a feature-length screenplay. Hawkins has also co-written the feature-length western Wrangled, adapted from the faith-based western novel The Trail Ends in Texas by award-winning author T.W. Lawrence. Both of these feature-length screenplays have won awards at secular and Christian film festivals alike, and Dadley Productions looks forward to seeing them produced by 2029.

The most recent Dadley Productions short, Night Voices, is a departure from the family-friendly content of its two earlier films and instead is a tense psychological thriller with a redemptive gut punch intended for audience members over the age of 12. Co-written by award-winning screenwriter Peter Fenton, Night Voices premiered on the film festival circuit in March 2023 and has already won over 90 awards worldwide, while it continues its journey through October of 2024.
 
Dadley Productions is developing what will be its first feature-length film, Moon Eyes, a romantic coming-of-age drama with diegetic music, and hopes to see it roll into production within the next year. The hybrid-genre film project is well into the developmental stage, with a ninth draft of the screenplay completed by Hawkins and co-writer Peter Fenton, and start-up funds of nearly $100k now in place for the $450K budget needed to produce this cinematic love story set entirely in Lancaster County, PA, and to be shot throughout the south central Pennsylvania region.