Christopher David Harris
Screenwriter
Christopher David Harris is a screenwriter, Air Force veteran, and self-proclaimed huge gay nerd from southeastern Virginia. He writes sci-fi, fantasy, drama, and horror about claiming your truth, confronting religious and family trauma, and finding connection in unlikely places. His characters often find themselves trapped in institutions they once believed in, discovering that breaking free means challenging everything they were taught. Expect LGBTQIA+ inclusion, sarcastic wit, and a weakness for fun, quippy dialogue.
Raised in a church music family, Christopher continues to draw inspiration from his own path of self-discovery through seminary, musical theatre, and the US Air Force Singing Sergeants. He’s a 2025 Writers Guild Foundation Veterans Fellow, and his first produced sci-fi short, TRACERS, premiered on DUST.
Available Screenplays
TV Pilots
CROSSROADS
One Hour Serialized Sci-Fi Drama
When a U.S. historian is yanked into a parallel timeline where the American Revolution failed, he must survive a resistance that doesn’t trust him and a British government that wants him dead if he is to find a way home.
2026 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder
AEGIS
One Hour Supernatural Hybrid Procedural
When a low-level Smithsonian archaeologist saves the Vice President from a demon attack using magic, the US government forms a secret team to deal with the new mystical threats.
2025 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder
THE SINGING SERGEANTS
One Hour Serialized Musical Dramedy
In 2002, after a spectacular career flameout, a gay singer is blackballed from Broadway and forced into his last resort: auditioning for the US Air Force’s Singing Sergeants, where he must navigate the military under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell while surviving a new by-the-book boss, his disapproving stepfather.
2025 Final Draft Big Break Top 10 Finalist
Features
THE GROUND KEEPS
Southern Gothic Horror
When a New England woman visits her fiancé’s ancestral plantation in rural Louisiana, a gathering of his family and an approaching hurricane awaken a buried reckoning, forcing her to confront the cost of silence, inheritance, and the man she planned to marry.
2026 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder
CHROMA VERITAS
Sci-Fi Action/Adventure Thriller
In an alternate world where sexuality manifests in skin patterns, a closeted gay man must escape from his theocratic homeland and across a barren wasteland before his father genetically purifies him.
PRODUCED WORKS
