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Hannah Varnell · 1st
Austin, Texas, United States · Contact info
218 connections · 223 followers
Contact email to surface is still TBD — gmail vs. the new hi@hannahvarnell.com alias (Confirm #4).
Bloodbath Studio
Colorado College

About

I'm a creative director, director, and founder. I build cinematic worlds — the kind a brand can step inside — about how people make identity, belonging, and power through culture.

I move between observation and world-building: watching how people actually live, then constructing the universe that lets you feel it. Beauty as armor, femininity as performance, light and the darkness right beside it — I'm drawn to duality, and I build emotional points of entry on every side of it.

I'm the founder, creative director, and executive producer of Bloodbath Studio, a collaborative art, fashion, and media platform I started in Austin. Over four years it's grown into 8+ film, fashion, and performance productions and a run of annual ~500-person events — LUCK, VENERATION, METANOIA — funded three times by the City of Austin's Economic Development Department, engaging 600+ artists and audiences. I make things that don't exist yet. That tenacity — forging the path through every city and project — is the throughline of my work.

As a director and cinematographer I've made commercial and branded work for Dell, Square, Procter & Gamble, H-E-B, Netflix, Nike, Indeed, Sonos, PBS, and Beats, and shot for The New York Times, BBC, Al Jazeera, and Travel Channel. My fashion film work earned Best Fashion Film at the 2025 Sarajevo Fashion Film Festival and an Official Selection at NYCIFF 2025. I'm also co-director of I NEED SPACE, a multi-year hybrid documentary on Austin's queer creative scene.

The ideas I return to: identity, culture, performance, belonging, beauty as power. The brands I want to build with are the ones telling cultural, lifestyle, fashion, beauty, music, and travel stories — work with a point of view.

I'm rooted in Austin, where the independent spirit and ease of connection made it possible to build a life on my own terms — and I work worldwide. Austin is the place I leave from and come back to.

If you're running a campaign and you want someone to direct the whole world of it — let's talk.

Featured

These 5 tiles pin to the top of her profile so it reads as a director's reel, not a résumé. Pixieset photography stays out of Featured (per the de-emphasis call).

Experience

Founder, Creative Director & Executive Producer

Bloodbath Studio · Full-time

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Austin, TX (Hybrid / Worldwide)

  • Founded and lead Bloodbath Studio — directing the creative vision across 8+ film, fashion, and performance productions over four years.
  • Created and executive-produced an annual ~500-person event series — LUCK (2022), VENERATION (2023), METANOIA (2024) — engaging 600+ artists and audiences.
  • Secured City of Austin Economic Development Department funding three times.
  • Set the through-line — identity, culture, belonging, duality — across the studio's films, events, and brand collaborations.
Her live profile lists this as "Executive Producer and Visual Director" — this elevates it to Founder / Creative Director / EP (Confirm #2).

Director · Cinematographer · Creative Director

Independent / For Hire · Freelance

Austin, TX · Available worldwide · dates to confirm

  • Directed commercial & branded-documentary work for Dell, Square, Procter & Gamble, H-E-B, Netflix, and Beats.
  • Cinematography for Indeed, Nike, PBS, and Sonos.
  • Award-winning fashion film: Best Fashion Film, Sarajevo 2025; Official Selection, NYCIFF 2025.
  • Camera / cinematography for The New York Times, BBC, Al Jazeera, Travel Channel, Food Network, and Southwest Airlines.
New entry (not on her profile yet) — needs date range (Confirm #1) & the award's home entity (Confirm #3).

Co-Director

I NEED SPACE (Hybrid Documentary)

Multi-year · dates to confirm

  • Co-directing a multi-year hybrid documentary on Austin's queer creative scene.
  • Developing the visual language and narrative structure across a long-form, evolving production.
New entry — needs date range (Confirm #1).

Education

Colorado College

BA, International Political Economics

2012

Skills

Creative Direction Pinned
Film & Commercial Directing Pinned
World-Building / Concept Development Pinned
Executive ProducingBrand Campaign DevelopmentBranded DocumentaryFashion FilmCinematographyArt DirectionCreative StrategyEvent & Production ManagementVisual StorytellingPhotography

Providing services

Creative Direction for brand campaigns · Film & commercial directing · Branded documentary · Fashion & beauty film · Cinematography · Concept development & world-building · Executive production

"Creative direction and directing for brands and campaigns with a point of view — cultural, fashion, beauty, music, and travel storytelling. Austin-based, available worldwide."

A few things to confirm with you, Hannah — then this is ready to go live
  1. Date ranges for your Freelance Director/Cinematographer and I NEED SPACE roles (these are new entries — your profile only has Bloodbath right now).
  2. Bloodbath title: good to elevate "Executive Producer and Visual Director" → Founder, Creative Director & Executive Producer?
  3. The awards (Sarajevo Best Fashion Film + NYCIFF) — do they sit under Bloodbath Studio, or your independent/freelance work?
  4. Contact email to show — your current gmail, or wait for the new hi@hannahvarnell.com to go live with the site?
  5. Photography — good to keep it off the Experience section and lead with directing/creative direction? (Your Pixieset stays linked, just not front-and-center.)

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