Bid to win a private screenwriting consultation in New York, LA, Austin, Dallas or Zoom with the legendary Hollywood writer and producer, J.V. (Jim) Hart. Jim, most known for writing Hook, Epic, Contact, Dracula, August Rush, The Hot Zone and Muppet Treasure Island has three decades of experience as a major Hollywood screenwriter and 20 years teaching seminars around the world. He can get you started on your screenplay or hone one you already have.
Once you have met with Jim, he will give you a one year subscription to the HartChart story mapping visual tool to help you deliver your masterpiece. The HartChart is described by other writers of scripts for "Life of Pi" to "Everybody Loves Raymond", as transformative. The HartChart is a story mapping tool to track the emotions of your characters and their journeys. It helps writers visualize the rise and fall of characters as they make choices and proceed through the story. "The HartChart revealed more about the Dallas Buyers Club than I knew and I co-wrote the script," says Craig Borten, Oscar nominated screenwriter. "I can tell you his approach works," says David Magee, Oscar nominated screenwriter of Finding Neverland. Your next stop will be the Academy Awards!!
Jim was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and grew up in Ft. Worth Texas on Drive-In Movies and Saturday Matinees.
He is a co-founder of the Peter Pan Children’s Fund, a non-profit that fosters youth philanthropy supporting Children’s Hospitals, has served on the Meadows School of the Arts board at SMU, is a founding member of the Writer’s Guild Initiative board, and founder of Lionfish University, a non-profit .org dedicated to reef preservation and conservation.
His renowned story mapping tool, TheHartChart, and the HartChart toolkit, were launched online and in print at the 2015 Austin Film Festival.
“Nobody has a job in our business until a writer types ‘the end’” is Hart’s mantra and guiding principle in his writing life.
Mr. Hart is the creator and executive producer of six-part drama “The Hot Zone” currently airing on Nat Geo. This true story of a mutated form of the Ebola virus found in 1989 at a primate facility near Washington, DC, stars Julianna Margulies.