Elan Mastai

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]

Elan Mastai
BornVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Occupationwriter, producer
NationalityCanadian
Genrescreenwriting, novels
Notable worksThe F Word (screenplay), All Our Wrong Todays (novel)
Website
elanmastai.com

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]

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. "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.
  9. Lea, Richard (2017-03-30). "Elan Mastai: 'I wrote about my mother's death, but I used time machines to do it'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  10. "Canadian 'This Is Us' writer Elan Mastai brings own experiences to the hit show". CP24. Canadian Press. November 16, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2021.


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