Gregory Hardman

His studies in English at the high school level culminated in June 2016, when Hardman's score in Cambridge Advanced Subsidiary Level English Language & Literature ranked 1st in the world. Approximately 500,000 candidates write these examinations each year. With a growing passion in films since his early teens, he decided to alter the trajectory of his life at the age of 17, inspired by high-intensity films such as Requiem for a Dream.

In 2016, Hardman was awarded a scholarship to study Film, Television & Media Arts at Quinnipiac University, where he soon declared a double major in English. During his accelerated undergraduate studies, he worked for the university's Integrated Marketing Communications department; worked as a camera operator for ESPN3; completed an internship for 20th Century Fox in Century City, Los Angeles for DeVon Frankin; assistant-directed, produced, and narrated two documentaries based in his home country of South Africa; and became the writer-producer of his award-winning senior thesis film, Acts of Contrition.

From 2012 to 2016, he attended St. Charles College in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, where his love of writing was first instilled into him. Although his studies in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics had initially geared him towards a career in medicine, Hardman found that he was most passionate in the English classroom, and it was the subject in which he excelled the most.

Gregory Thomas Hardman was born on July 6, 1998 in Miami, Florida, to Coral May Hardman, a psychometric counselor, and Darryl Kevin Hardman, an entrepreneur. Shortly after Gregory's birth, Darryl's business ventures moved the family to the Bahamas and then to South Africa, where Gregory completed his schooling.