Steven Hart

Mr.
Screenwriter and Illustrator

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Member Since:
March 2024

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About Steven

Steven originally started honing his writing and visual skills in Advertising in Scotland as a Copywriter/Art Director in the 1990s, winning several awards for his creative work. He went on to teach Art, Design and Illustration in Scottish colleges for many years (and still does) before deciding to have a go at writing a screenplay, as he has been a lifelong movie fan, since his mother took him to see all the Disney films in his childhood.

As an adult his favourite movie genre is the Crime Thriller. His writing is strongly influenced and inspired by such great films as, A History of Violence, Seven, The Departed, Taxi Driver, Carlito's Way, Sin City, True Romance, Falling Down, 8MM, Zodiac, Joker, The Usual Suspects, Gran Torino, You Were Never Really Here, LA Confidential, No Country For Old Men, Man On Fire, Basic Instinct, The Equalizer, Collateral, Insomnia, Reservoir Dogs, The Silence of the Lambs, Heat, Memento, Fargo, Prisoners, Harry Brown, Uncut Gems, The Crow, In Bruges, Promising Young Woman, The Brave One and Night of the Hunter, in no particular order.

To date, his screenplay, Overwhelming Darkness has won first place in the Thriller Screenplay contest at the Best Script Awards – London 2024, was the first-place winner in the screenplay competition at the Feel the Reel International Film Festival and has also won the screenplay competition at the ReelHeART International Film Festival as well. It has been a semi-finalist in the Golden Script Competition, a quarter finalist in the Page Turner Screenplays First 15 Feature Competition 2024, was a quarter finalist in the monthly Wiki Screenplay Contest 2023, a finalist in the Bloody Hero International Film Festival and has also received Honourable Mentions from the Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards 2023, the LA Movie Awards and Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival in the Best Original Script category 2023.

In 2023 Steven completely rewrote the script, to really tighten it up and make it the best commercial version possible. He is currently turning Overwhelming Darkness into a Graphic Novel with a digital illustration company in Torino, Italy, and writing it as a novella/film novel as well. For his second screenplay, Elsewhere Toronto, he was asked to collaborate on a story idea by a writer/director/editor friend from Toronto.

Steven is also an artist/illustrator and has produced many commissioned works for private clients throughout the world. His Pop Art style portraits focus on Rock Stars, Movie Idols and Sports Heroes.

He has also started to write about his experiences of living with Motor Neurone Disease, since he was diagnosed with the condition back in December 2020.

His motto: Always create what you want to create for yourself, first and foremost. and never follow trends.

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 7"

Body type:
Average

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Salt/Pepper

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

Badges

2025-03-29

Writers' Room Member

Certifications

Photos

With my commissioned portrait of Chris Cornell, before it went to a client in Buffalo.

With my portrait of Dave Grohl and my self portrait in Toronto in 2016.

With my portrait of Wayne Gretzky before moving to Canada.

At my students' graduation at Glasgow University, at the end of 2019, before the pandemic hit.

Loglines

Overwhelming Darkness Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Crime After accidentally killing a child murderer, a jaded crime reporter plummets over the edge into a violent, bloody journey to rid her city of the criminals and scumbags that she’s always despised. But what price must she pay as she starts to become the very thing she hates?

Awards

Award Winner Thriller Screenplay - Best Script Award - London
(2024)
Quarter Finalist First Fifteen - Page Turner Screenplays
(2024)
Official Selection - London Director Awards
(2024)
Honourable Mention - Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival
(2024)
Official Selection - Bridge Fest
(2024)
Official Selection - MegaFlix Film Awards
(2024)
Official Selection - Love & Hope International Film Festival
(2024)
Semi-Finalist - Page Turner Screenplays Feature Competition
(2024)
Feature Script Award Winner - Indo Dubai International Film Festival
(2024)
Best Feature Screenplay - San Francisco Independent Filmmaker Contests'
(2024)
Best Film Poster - London Indie Film Festival
(2024)
Best Feature Script - London Indie Film Festival
(2024)
Best Feature Script - New York International Cult Film Festival
(2024)
Best Thriller Screenplay - New York International Cult Film Festival
(2024)
Best International Feature Script Winner – Miami Film Critic Award
(2024)
Best Feature Screenplay Winner – Golden Nugget International Film Festival
(2024)
Best Thriller Screenplay Winner - Berlin International Screenwriting Festival
(2024)
Best Feature Screenplay (Grand Monthly Winner April) – Bridge Fest Film Festival
(2024)
Best Feature Script Winner – Carpe Diem Film Festival
(2024)
Best Screenwriter Winner – Carpe Diem Film Festival
(2024)
Best Thriller Screenplay Winner – Oxford Script Awards
(2024)
Best Author - Sydney Cinematic Horizons Film Festival
(2024)
Best International Screenplay - Indie Vegas Film Festival
(2024)
Best Feature Screenplay (Spring) - Bull City International Film Festival & Screenplay Competition
(2024)
Best Thriller Screenplay Winner – Prague Screenplay Awards
(2024)
Best Feature Screenplay/TV Script Finalist – Rome Prisma Film Awards
(2024)
Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Screenplay Competition Quarter Finalist
(2024)
Honourable Mention Feature Script (Monthly Winner) – New York International Cult Film Festival
(2024)
Quarter Finalist - Wiki: The World's Fastest Screenplay Contest!
(2023)
Honourable Mention - Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
(2023)
Award Winner - Feel The Reel International Film Festival
(2019)
Semi Finalist - The Golden Script Competition
(2017)

Education

Glasgow School of Art
(1998-2001)