Short Films
Stratum Deep (2020)
Robert, a young coal miner, is severely injured but forced to rescue his father in the accidental collapse of their coal mine. Historical fiction set in the aftermath of the miners strike.
Director: Lian Rose
Producer: James Bowsher
Screenwriter: Nathan Hardisty
(Story by Nathan Hardisty and Lian Rose)
(Silver Prize at Camerimage 2020)
(Nominated for Postgraduate Scripted at the Royal Television Society Student Awards 2021)
Something Borrowed (2020)
Pen to paper, a sweet old woman can’t find the right words. When she lends her pen to a hopeless young chap, something else eludes her.
Director and Animator: Micky Wozny
Producer: Andrew St Maur
Screenwriter: Nathan Hardisty
(Story by Micky Wozny, Nathan Hardisty, and Liam Hall)
(2020 New Designers Screening Award)
(Best Animated Short, Norwich Film Festival)
(Best International Short Film at the Irish Animation Awards 2021)
(Audience Award for Best Short Film at Rome IFF 2020)
(Screenplay nominated for Postgraduate Writing at the Royal Television Society Student Awards 2021)
(Shortlisted, 2020 GSA BAFTA Student Film Awards)
Boo (2019)
Charlie, a 9-year-old girl, is confronted with death for the first time in her life when her grandfather dies. As her family grieves, Charlie copes by wearing a Halloween costume - becoming the ghost that haunts her family.
Director: Tammes Bernstein
Producer: James Bowsher
Screenwriter: Nathan Hardisty
(Story by Tammes Bernstein and Nathan Hardisty)
Featured on Beyond the Shorts.
Games
Audio/Plays
Audio
Drifting (2018)
A short audio drama I directed and wrote as part of a module during my time at NFTS. It follows an astronaut sent off-course during a spacewalk, and the danger she faces.
Writer and Director: Nathan Hardisty
Editor: Gareth Pugh
Sound Designer: Ruth Knight
Composer: Ethan Jeffrey
Plays
Watermelon (Monologue, OutStageUs 2021, Hope Mill, Manchester).
The Battle of Orgreave (Short Play, Soho Theatre, London, CANCELLED DUE TO COVID)
Fledge (Anthology, Courtyard Theatre, London, 2019)
terms & conditions apply (Short Play, Soho Theatre, London 2018)
Losing My Religion (Papercuts Play, ADC Cambridge, 2016)
Trimalchio (Papercuts Play, ADC, Cambridge, 2016)