Elan Mastai

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Elan Mastai
Born Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupationwriter, producer
Nationality Canadian
Genrescreenwriting, 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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References

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  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.
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  6. "Film studies students screen short features". Kingston Whig-Standard , April 29, 1996.
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