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    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]

  2. Oct 12, 2017 · His standout work, the 2013 film The F Word, was the first time Mastai worked on a screenplay entirely of his own vision without commercial considerations. The result was a uniquely down-to-earth romantic comedy with witty dialogue and playful chemistry.

  3. 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 ... English

  4. Mar 14, 2017 · 'You'll Only Change When the Status Quo is Ripped Away From You': An Interview with Elan Mastai By David Berry Talking with the author of All Our Wrong Todays about the unintended consequences of innovation, the seductive powers of nihilism, and writing movie scripts about skateboarding chimpanzees.

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    "There were three main sources of inspiration for this book, spread out over decades. The first comes from my grandfather, who was a chemist. He really believed in his core that science was the answer to all the problems of the future. He also had an extensive collection of 1950s and 1960s sci-fi novels. I loved staring at these garish paintings of...

    "I had the idea for a little while before I put pen to paper. I thought, well, is this a movie? One day I'm walking my dog, and I'm thinking if only this could be in the first person, but it can't be first person because you can't do that in a movie without a ton of voice-over. And then I thought, wait, this could be a novel. Right at that moment, ...

    "The book is structured into really short chapters. When I wrote this book, I didn't have a publishing deal or a literary agent. So I fit the writing around my other work. I made a deal with myself, which was that I would write 250–500 words a day, but every single day. And initially, the short chapters were because each chapter represented one of ...

  5. Feb 10, 2017 · I think books should bring kids boundless joy, but it's okay for them to find out that words on a page can sometimes break your heart. Which books haven't you read that you feel you should ...

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  7. When Elan Mastai’s father said hello to a pretty stranger in a Jerusalem café some four decades ago, it was the only English word he knew. She was born in Chicago and grew up in Vancouver, and had lived in London the previous few years before trekking to Israel to explore her Jewish heritage and teach English, of all things.

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