Dylan Van Hauen

Dylan Van Hauen is an American filmmaker in the Live Free collective.

Brother of Jarrod Van Hauen, his effort in the group began in Mike Barkhoff's 2018 debut feature film INFINITE. and has continued since as an actor. In 2021, he released his debut short film Mixed Bags, as well as several starring and written credits to his name for Live Free's Unscripted incarnation. He plans to begin filming his debut feature film in 2022.

Van Hauen intended to get involved with film efforts as far back as 2014, but was denied this due to Jarrod wanting him to have a separate stance when he did enter. Finally, Dylan got his starting chance in 2018 when he was asked to do a role in Barkhoff's debut feature film. Barkhoff wrote the role with Dylan in mind, wanting all three brothers, including Caleb Van Hauen, to feature in the film in some way as a thank you to all they had done for him.

Dylan continued by helping Barkhoff in 2020 produce his then intended sophomoric feature film effort, I Give It A Year. Van Hauen introduced Barkhoff to several actors to fill roles and helped with scheduling. Due to COVID-19, this was cut short, leaving the film only little more than a third of the way completed. Nonetheless, Barkhoff released it ahead of the Presidential Election that year. Notably, Barkhoff and Van Hauen had differing views on politics. Barkhoff talked to Van Hauen about this nearly immediately when approaching him with the project, explaining that that aspect was "essential" in making the project not just a "one-sided attack".

Following their film break due to the pandemic, Van Hauen approached Barkhoff with an idea for a feature film. They wrote the story together, and Barkhoff proceeded to write a script. It originally was intended to film in 2021 but wasn't successfully put into production due to hectic schedules between the both of them.

Shortly thereafter, Barkhoff contacted Van Hauen with a role in his approaching new series Living Free. Dylan serves as a secondary main character, and appears in six of the seven episodes released thus far. In the scripts, he only appeared in four, but when the duo began filming, Barkhoff and Van Hauen had ideas to expand the story and decided to improvise scenes that would later be crucial to the storyline.

Van Hauen directed Episodes 4 and 5, Film Scouting and The Robbery. He also has agreed to appear in forthcoming films and series of Barkhoff's. He was set to appear in an episode of Chapters.' second season, but this too was prevented due to the aforementioned pandemic.

Acting Credits
- INFINITE.

- I Give It A Year

- Unscripted (2021, 3 episodes), originally advertisements planned for the above project

- Shattered

- Living Free

Directed Works
- Film Scouting

- The Robbery

Created Projects
- Shattered