Craig Harner
Screenwriter & Filmmaker
I write stories built around characters, conflict, and cinematic worlds.
Craig Harner is a screenwriter and filmmaker developing original stories across action, crime, thriller, drama, and suspense.
His work focuses on strong characters, high-stakes situations, and stories designed to translate to the screen.
His current feature screenplay, PHOENIX RUN, combines an outlaw cross-country race, a legendary driver, and a massive heist unfolding while the entire country watches.
PHOENIX RUN
FEATURE SCREENPLAY
An outlaw cross-country race. A legendary driver. And a heist unfolding while the entire country watches.
THE COLLECTORS
FEATURE SCREENPLAY
Two debt collectors stumble onto $50 million in buried cartel money—and suddenly everyone who wants the fortune is coming for them.
WEST OF MIDLAND
FEATURED SCREENPLAY
A woman. A town. A disease nobody understands.
SHORT SCREENPLAYS
A recovering alcoholic closing up a neighborhood bar is confronted by a mysterious stranger who knows the darkest secrets of his past—and forces him to face what he can no longer escape.
As their daughter lies on life support following a fatal accident, two estranged parents must confront their buried resentment and an impossible decision.
A grieving father moves through the quiet routines of a life frozen in time, until he finally finds the strength to open the door to the room—and the memories—he has been unable to face.
ME & MY KIND FILMS
A PEEK IN THE NOTEBOOK
WORKS IN PROCESS
When a brutal serial killer terrorizes Austin, two Texas Rangers chase a suspect who may not be the man they think he is. Meanwhile, a recovering alcoholic takes matters into his own hands when he catches a burglar inside his home—unaware that the man may be connected to the murders. As the investigation closes in, he is forced to confront the difference between justice, revenge, and the person he has fought for years to become.
In the unforgiving world of a West Texas oil town, Rodney Fisher has spent his life doing what he's always done—working hard, keeping his head down, and looking after the people around him. When Libby Williams, a young single mother struggling against poverty, an absent father, and a town that is quick to judge, enters his life, an unlikely bond begins to form. But when a devastating secret threatens Libby and her unborn child, Rodney finds himself pulled into a fight he cannot win—and a loss that leaves him with one final chance to become the man he was meant to be.
When a Buffalo detective investigating a suspicious death discovers connections to a decades-old trail of violence, the case begins to collide with his own troubled family. As one son faces criminal charges and another battles the consequences of a near-fatal overdose, buried secrets threaten to destroy everything Stuart has spent his life protecting.