Elan Mastai | |
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Born | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Occupation | writer, producer |
Nationality | Canadian |
Genre | screenwriting, novels |
Notable works | The F Word (screenplay), All Our Wrong Todays (novel) |
Website | |
elanmastai.com |
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. Both his parents are Jewish, and they met in Jerusalem. [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, the book concerns 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] In 2017 he was described as working on a screenplay for All Our Wrong Todays, and working on a second novel. [9]
Mastai is supervising producer and staff writer of NBC's This Is Us . [10]
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