Elan Mastai

Elan Mastai
Born Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation writer
Nationality Canadian
Genre screenwriting, novels
Notable works The F Word

Elan Mastai is a Canadian screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for The F Word, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014.[1]

His other screenwriting credits include MVP: Most Vertical Primate and Fury.[2] He has described The F Word as the first time he wrote a screenplay in his own voice, rather than to the commercial demands of a mass-audience film.[3]

He was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia,[4] to a Canadian mother and an Israeli immigrant father.[5] He studied film at Queen's University[6] and Concordia University.[4]

In 2015, Mastai secured a $1.25 million deal for his debut novel, All Our Wrong Todays.[7] A science fiction novel about a man from an alternate history utopia who, while part of a time travel experiment, causes a drastic alteration of his history, and regains consciousness in our society. The novel was published on February 7, 2017.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Enemy biggest movie winner at Canadian Screen Awards". Toronto Star, March 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Mastai's screenwriting". The Province, August 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ "The F Word gave screenwriter chance to use his own voice". The Globe and Mail, August 22, 2014.
  4. 1 2 "A wild ride for F Word's screenwriter; B.C. native 'dropped into deep end' of Hollywood while in grad school". Ottawa Citizen, August 22, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Elan Mastai taps family history for F Word". The Jewish Independent, August 22, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Film studies students screen short features". Kingston Whig-Standard, April 29, 1996.
  7. ↑ "Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: Screenwriter's Debut Fetches Seven Figures". Publishers Weekly, October 8, 2015.
  8. ↑ "The Week in Reading: The Best New Book Releases for February 7, 2017". Newsweek, February 7, 2017.


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