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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. His other screenwriting credits include '' MVP: Most Vertical Primate'' and '' Fury''. 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. He was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia,"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. to a Canadian mother and an Israeli immigrant father. Both his parents are Jewish, and they met in Jerusalem. He studied film at Queen's University and Concordia University. In 2015, Mastai secured a $1.25 million deal for his debut novel, ''All Our Wrong Todays''. A science fiction novel, the book concerns a man from an alternate history uto ...
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Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Greater Vancouver, Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada#List, third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley Regional District, Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 people per square kilometre, and fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most Ethnic origins of people in Canada, ethnically and Languages of Canada, linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of ...
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Kingston Whig-Standard
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Concordia University Alumni
Concordia may refer to: * Concordia (mythology), the Roman goddess who embodies agreement in marriage and society Businesses and organizations Educational institutions * Concordia University (other), for Concordia University, Concordia College and Concordia Seminary * Concordia Academy (other) * Concordia High School (other) * Concordia Lutheran High School (other) * Concordia International School Shanghai, in Pudong, China * Concordia Junior-Senior High School, Concordia, Kansas * Concordia Language Villages, a world-language and culture education program * Concordia Normal School (closed 1878) * Great Western Business and Normal College, or Concordia Normal School and Business College, or Concordia Business College, in Concordia, Kansas, U.S. (closed 1930s) Other businesses and organizations * Concordia Association of Manchukuo, a 1930s–1940s political party * Concordia Healthcare, now Advanz Pharma * Concordia Publishing House, LCMS ...
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Queen's University At Kingston Alumni
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Writers From Vancouver
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Jewish Canadian Writers
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21st-century Canadian Novelists
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Canadian Science Fiction Writers
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Canadian Male Novelists
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Canadian Male Screenwriters
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Newsweek
''Newsweek'' is an American weekly online news magazine co-owned 50 percent each by Dev Pragad, its president and CEO, and Johnathan Davis (businessman), Johnathan Davis, who has no operational role at ''Newsweek''. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, it was widely distributed during the 20th century, and had many notable editors-in-chief. The magazine was acquired by The Washington Post Company in 1961, and remained under its ownership until 2010. Revenue declines prompted The Washington Post Company to sell it, in August 2010, to the audio pioneer Sidney Harman for a purchase price of one dollar and an assumption of the magazine's liabilities. Later that year, ''Newsweek'' merged with the news and opinion website ''The Daily Beast'', forming The Newsweek Daily Beast Company. ''Newsweek'' was jointly owned by the estate of Harman and the diversified American media and Internet company IAC (company), IAC. ''Newsweek'' continued to experience financial difficulties, whic ...
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