About Staton
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2024-11-05
Writers' Room Member
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Awards
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ISA Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch
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BRONZE AWARD— PAGE Awards ("Saving Mark Twain")
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Austin Film Festival - Semifinalist (Feature Drama script) - "The Girl From Krakow"
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Finalist, WeScreenplay Feature Screenwriting Competition
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Top 10 Finalist in the Genre, Table Read My Screenplay Competition
(2021)
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Loglines
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"The Girl From Krakow" Budget: $10M - $30M | Military/War ⋄ Romance WWII. While on the run from the Nazis, a beautiful young Jewish housewife on a desperate search for her kidnapped child finds herself falling passionately in love for the first time-- with a woman from the Polish resistance. Based on the book by Alex Rosenberg, inspired by true events. Afterglow Pictures/Two Jacks attached; seeking co-producers, financing partners, other attachments, etc. "The Girl From Krakow" is an Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition Semifinalist and was previously on Coverfly's Red List.
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SAVING MARK TWAIN Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy ⋄ Biopic / True Story Broke and battling writer's block, Mark Twain thinks things can't get worse, until Rudyard Kipling (23), a starstruck reporter from India, shows up uninvited and steals his teenage daughter's heart, turning his misery into chaos. But in this maddening fanboy, Twain just might find his spark again-- and the unexpected friendship that could save him. Inspired by a true story and public domain IP by Rudyard Kipling. PAGE Awards Bronze Prize winner, genre winner of ISA Fast Track, and winner of Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition. Comps: "Saving Mr. Banks" and "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood".
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BETSY AND THE EMPEROR Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Adventure A rebellious teenage English girl befriends the most feared man on earth-- Napoleon Bonaparte-- while he's being held prisoner by the British on the remote island of St. Helena, grows to love him, and risks her life on a dangerous scheme to help him escape. Based on my award-winning YA novel from Simon & Schuster; foreign book publishing rights sold in 15 languages.
Education
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NYU/Tisch School of the Arts
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