The Last Electrician (Feature)

By Harry Bartle

A boy discovers that his scientist father, long presumed dead, may be alive and must travel through a near future New York City riddled with blackouts to find him.

Harry Bartle is an award winning screenwriter and director born and raised in Manhattan. His short films and music videos have premiered at the New Orleans Film Festival, Indie Memphis and VICE. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University where he graduated with honors in English. He enjoys writing research-based scripts focused on dynamic characters in worlds well beyond his own. His faculty honors script The Last Electrician, set in a post-catastrophe near-future, was inspired by several years of living and working in New Orleans and witnessing the extreme challenges that city has faced due to climate change. His pilot script JASON, set in the world of super-secret American physicists during the Vietnam War, won Columbia’s 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Science Screenplay Award. He is currently revising his thesis screenplay based on extensive research within minor league baseball.