Christian Hearn
Screenwriter, Director and Script Supervisor
Cambridge, United Kingdom
March 2015
3 days ago
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About Christian
Once upon a time Christian dreamed of becoming a stuntman. But several injuries and a blood clot later, he decided that writing would be a far safe (and equally exhilarating) endeavour.
Christian is a produced and optioned writer. His screenplay The Boy Who Had Three Arms placed as a top 10 Finalist in the Screen Craft Comedy Contest, and as a Finalist in the UK Film Festival. The script also won Honourable Mention at Screenplay Festival, was a Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival, and landed on the Coverfly Red List. Most recently Christian won the award for Best Original Horror/Thriller for his script The Hiding at the Richmond International Film Festival. The Hiding has also featured on the Coverfly Red List.
Christian’s supernatural thriller The Kindred won Honourable Mention at the Screenplay Festival and placed as a semi finalist in the Scream Craft Horror Contest before being optioned by Parkhouse Pictures (Anna and the Apocalypse, 2017). The film stars James Cosmo (Braveheart, Game of Thrones) and Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey, Goldeneye). The Kindred had its world premiere at Fright Fest and was soon after longlisted for the Raindance Discovery Award at the British Independent Film Awards.
Horror Feature, Fractured (2016), for which Christian wrote the screenplay, was nominated for 9 awards and went on to win 6 at the British Horror Film Festival, including the award for Best Feature Film. It went on to win Best Film at the London Independent Film Awards.
Chris lives with his girlfriend and their three cats in England and currently has a portfolio of completed feature-length screenplays.
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The Severing Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Horror In the wake of a viral form of necrosis, a desperate father takes his family into the wild to avoid the contagion, but there he encounters a manipulative survivalist who intentionally infects his wife and children. Now the father faces an impossible choice; leave his family to die, or sever their infected parts?
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ONCE UPON A CRIME Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Crime An undercover cop must maintain his criminal persona just to stay alive when he's locked up in a cell with a gang of bank thieves. But when he learns they are all undercover cops, he discovers he's the victim of an elaborate set-up.
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The Hiding Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror A travelling salesman unwittingly puts his young daughter's life in danger when he rescues a boy who he mistakes for the victim of a kidnapping, but is in fact a blossoming serial killer.
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The Boy Who Had Three Arms Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent ⋄ Comedy A teenage loner with a third arm uses his extra appendage to commit acts of villainy and retaliate against his tormentors, but when he befriends other outcasts he learns that ultimately he is his own worst enemy.
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The Bearing Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Mystery When forced to lodge with an ageing couple, a destitute young man strikes a friendship with the wheelchair-bound husband and his wife, but soon suspects the older man's disabilities are a result of horrific domestic abuse, and that he has been lured to the house for a very sinister purpose.
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Blind Date Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror ⋄ Comedy A serial killer looking for love can’t resist murdering every girl he meets. But when he agrees to a blind date with a girl who then poisons him he realises he's finally met his match...another serial killer.
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Wounds Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Mystery Soon after an African-America Sheriff of a small desert town loses her gun and covers up her mistake, she finds herself investigating a series of shootings. But when she discovers the victims are members of a white supremacist group, the Sheriff begins to suspect her own son is the shooter.
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Death of a Stuntman Budget: $1M - $5M | Action ⋄ Comedy A blacklisted Stuntman gets one last shot at fame when two friends hire him to star in their low-budget action film, but the production comes under threat when a rival stuntman sets out to kill the leading man.
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The Last Mile Budget: $100K - $1M | Action ⋄ Thriller Doctor Robert McCammon survives a bullet to the head only to wake up trapped in the trunk of his own car. Now speeding at eighty miles an hour towards an unknown destination with his would-be-killer behind the wheel, Robert must find out who wants him dead, and why.
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Holy Sh!t Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy A frustrated gas station attendant hires two crooks to rob her obnoxious boss. But when the robbery goes disastrously wrong, she winds up taking a bullet and is then forced to become her boss's Guardian Angel to protect him from the very thieves she hired.
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Overkill Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Crime A pro thief races to hunt down the man that left his wife for dead before the cops do, only to discover that the man responsible is a cop on a revenge mission of his own.
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Frank is Mine Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror ⋄ Comedy When a shy mortician's assistant, obsessed with the movie Frankenstein, accidentally injures a Boris Karloff lookalike he chooses to kidnap the man and put him back together using stolen body parts.
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Fear Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Horror A blind woman tries to escape her own home after it is invaded by a stranger, but when the intruder imprisons her and reveals his intent is not to kill but to keep her in a state of perpetual fear she must turn her disability into a weapon with which to fight back.
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DeadAlive Budget: $10M - $30M | Mystery ⋄ Thriller A terminally-ill former FBI agent teams up with an Atlanta detective, vowing to spend her final days profiling a serial killer who eluded them both 21 years ago and poses his young victims as if to look alive, killing them without leaving any clear cause of death.
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DeadAlive - Episode 1: The Silver Swan Budget: $5M - $10M | Mystery ⋄ Thriller A terminally-ill former FBI agent teams up with an Atlanta Detective, vowing to spend her final days profiling a serial killer who eluded them both twenty one years earlier and poses his young victims as if to look alive, killing them without leaving any clear cause of death.
Credits
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The Kindred (
2021 )
Film by Parkhouse Pictures Jamie Patterson Writer A woman suffering from amnesia pieces together the events that led to her father's suicide, only to be haunted by the ghosts of children that she begins to suspect were murdered by him. -
Fractured (
2015 )
Film by Jump Start Productions (Horror and Thriller) Writer Winner of Best Film at the British Horror Film Festival, The London Independent Film Awards, The Love Horror Award, and the Festival Director's Choice at the Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival. -
Once Upon a Crime (
2013 )
Film by Jump Start Productions Composer/Writer/Director -
The Riot (
2010 )
Film (short) by Self Produced Writer/Director -
The Hands of Time (
2009 )
Film (short) by Self Produced Writer/Director -
Jackie Chase: Portrait of an Activist (
2008 )
Documentary by Student Project Writer/Director
Awards
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Screen Craft Action and Thriller Screenplay Contest - Semifinalist
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Screen Craft Pilot Launch - Semifinalist
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ISA Table Read My Screenplay - Semifinalist
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ISA Table Read My Screenplay - Semifinalist
(2018) -
Screenplay Festival - Honorable Mention Winner
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ISA Fast Track Fellowship - Top 50
(2017) -
ISA Fast Track Fellowship - Top 50
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Screen Craft Horror Screenplay Contest - Semifinalist
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Screen Craft Comedy Screenplay Contest - 9th Place
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Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition - Second Rounder
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Screenplay Festival - Honorable Mention Winner
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Bluecat Screenplay Contest - Quarterfinalist
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Shore Scripts Screenplay Contest - Quarterfinalist
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Screenplay Festival - Finalist
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Write Movies - Quarterfinalist
(2015) -
Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition - Quarterfinalist
(2014)
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