In 1992, while in London for the UK premiere of the movie Hook, which was written by her father, she was given a tour of the Great Ormond Street Hospital.

After returning home to the United States, she asked her friends to make donations to the hospital in lieu of presents for her tenth birthday.

[3] Directly after graduating college, Hart began teaching high school at 25 years old.

[citation needed] Hart's film Fast Color premiered at South by Southwest in 2018, a year when 80% of the films in the SXSW festival's narrative feature competition were directed or co-directed by women.

[7] Hart co-wrote Fast Color and I'm Your Woman with Jordan Horowitz, who has also served as a producer on her projects.