Paul D. Hart

Unique traits: Cheeseburger or Pizza is my "Sophie's Choice"

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  Three Fingers Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ War A former Marine teeters on the edge of losing custody of her child as she struggles with PTSD and isolation in the deep South, where buried trauma and fractured memory threaten to consume what remains of her life.

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  Home Sick Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent ⋄ Drama Overwhelmed and emotionally adrift, a young man returns to his estranged father’s apartment after 20 years, where shared space and fractured time blur the line between presence and absence, memory and disconnection, in a quiet reckoning with mental illness and grief.

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  Mosh Drama ⋄ Comedy In the mid-1990s, a scrappy Southern grunge band comes of age while chasing shows, dodging heartbreak, and trying to find their place in a scene that defines their generation.

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  Defect -v. - {di-'fekt} Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller Raised in an isolated cult where all women are mysteriously barren, a young woman escapes—and becomes miraculously pregnant. Hunted by those who want her back, she must navigate a fractured, authoritarian America with the help of a smuggler promising freedom in the seceded “Blue” states.

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  I Haven't Laughed in a Year Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Comedy A joyless thirty-something embarks on a solo road trip curated by his chaotic friend, following her strange itinerary in a last-ditch attempt to feel anything. A bleak, offbeat comedy about numbness, control, and the absurdity of chasing joy on someone else’s terms.

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  D. All of the Above Budget: $0 - $100K | Thriller ⋄ Drama A surreal, fragmented descent through the psyche of three high school outcasts—each confronting identity, trauma, and mortality—as their interwoven paths edge toward an irreversible breaking point. A dark meditation on cruelty, regret, and the desperate need to be seen before it’s too late.

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  Bright Light Action ⋄ Biography ⋄ Drama ⋄ War Based on true events, this Vietnam War pilot follows an elite MACV-SOG recon team as they navigate covert missions, moral ambiguity, and personal trauma deep behind enemy lines—where survival depends on loyalty, instinct, and impossible choices. Vietnam's "Band of Brothers"

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  Saturday Train Drama ⋄ Independent When a socially isolated gamer caring for his dying grandmother blurs the line between his online fantasy world and real life, a volatile romance with a troubled girl pulls him into a collision course with her abusive stepfather—and his own unraveling sense of reality.

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  Captain America - Brave New World (2023 - 2024)
  Film by Marvel Entertainment 2nd Unit Gaffer

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  Three Fingers (2014 - 2015)
  Film (short) by Farm Dog Productions Writer/Director Grand Jury Prize – Best Narrative Short — Nashville Film Festival Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Award — Sidewalk Film Festival Special Jury Award – Southern Spirit — Oxford Film Festival Audience Award – Best Film — Katra Film Series NYC Nomination – Best Narrative Short — Austin Film Festival Nomination – Best Film of the Year — Katra Film Series NYC Official Selection — Raindance Film Festival Official Selections — Chattanooga, Tacoma, Women Texas, Cucalorus Film Festivals Jesstine, a young female Marine struggles to navigate her disintegrating life after returning home from being wounded in Afghanistan. Confronted with crippling loss and her own ongoing volatile behavior, she is left with nothing but one crucial choice.

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  "Heavy Dreams" - GT (2015)
  Video by Paul D. Hart Director WINNER - Audience Choice Award WINNER - Best Art Direction This music video was made as part of the Sidewalk Scrambled Jam Event, Spring 2015

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  RoomShare (2013)
  Internet by SimpleMan Productions Director

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  Bandmates (2012)
  Internet by Double H Productions Writer/Director

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  Walking Shadow (2008)
  Theater by Collborative Artists Ensemble Director

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  86 Manners (2007)
  Film (short) by Weasel Productions Writer/Director

• Audience Award – Best Film — Katra Film Series NYC
  (2016)

• Kathryn Tucker Windham Storytelling Jury Award - Sidewalk Film Festival
  (2015)

• Audience Choice Award - "Heavy Dreams" by GT Music Video
  (2015)

• Best Art Direction - "Heavy Dreams" by GT Music Video
  (2015)

• Grand Jury Prize – Best Narrative Short — Nashville Film Festival
  (2015)

• Special Jury Award – Southern Spirit — Oxford Film Festival
  (2015)

• Nomination – Best Narrative Short — Austin Film Festival
  (2015)

• Nomination – Best Film of the Year — Katra Film Series NYC

• Los Angeles Film School
  (1995-1997)

• Carson-Newman College
  (1995-1997)