About

GG Hawkins is a writer, director, and podcaster who tells stories that explore the dark side of the female experience and millennial ennui. Her feature directorial debut, I Really Love My Husband, premiered at SXSW in 2025, won the First-Time Director Award at the Chattanooga Film Festival, and had a limited US theatrical release in September ahead of its November digital debut, and an international theatrical run in January 2026. 

She directed the short Yes, Daddy—a spiritual prequel to the feature—which has garnered over 8 million views on YouTube, and wrote and directed G.U.F., an episode of You Feeling This?, which premiered at Tribeca in 2023.

GG received the Channie Award for Best Directing for her web series Kinda Flakey, and her short film An Aspirational Space was awarded the Robert De Niro Scholarship. She is a fellow of the Film Independent Episodic Lab and the Moonshot Initiative Pilot Accelerator, and her feature In Bed With Me was selected for the 2025 Gotham Project Market.

As host of the No Film School Podcast, GG explores the craft of filmmaking in conversations with guests such as Kelly Fremon Craig, Pete Docter, Benny Safdie, and James Mangold. She is represented by Curate and Granderson Des Rochers. Follow her work at gghawkins.com or on social media @lostingraceland.