Elan Mastai
| Elan Mastai | |
|---|---|
| Born | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| 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 a future utopia who is transported through time to contemporary society, the novel is slated for publication in 2016.
References
- ↑ "Enemy biggest movie winner at Canadian Screen Awards". Toronto Star, March 9, 2014.
- ↑ "Mastai's screenwriting". The Province, August 21, 2014.
- ↑ "The F Word gave screenwriter chance to use his own voice". The Globe and Mail, August 22, 2014.
- 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.
- ↑ "Elan Mastai taps family history for F Word". The Jewish Independent, August 22, 2014.
- ↑ "Film studies students screen short features". Kingston Whig-Standard, April 29, 1996.
- ↑ "Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: Screenwriter's Debut Fetches Seven Figures". Publishers Weekly, October 8, 2015.