E. Amato

Screenwriter, Script Consultant, Script Supervisor and Director

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About E.

E. Amato (she/her/hers) is a writer, editor, and performing poet. Her pilot script Majority Rules is in the Top 4% of discoverable scripts on Coverfly. Among its accolades are Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices SciFi/Fantasy Genre Winner, shortlist Amazon Studios Writer Slam, semifinalist in the Writers Lab NYC and Filmmatic's Pitch Now. She edited Judith Weston’s 25th Anniversary Edition of Directing Actors.

Her poems appear in recent anthologies Tia Chucha Press’ The Coiled Serpent, Voices from Leimert Park Redux, and 1001 Nights: Twenty Years of Redondo Poets. A member of The Body Is Not an Apology’s Leadership Circle in 2014 - 2015, E. Amato contributed articles to the groundbreaking radical self-love and bodily empowerment website.

As a performer and producer, E. Amato received 5-stars in consecutive runs at the Fringe Festival Edinburgh—a rare accomplishment—and toured extensively in the US and UK. From 2003 through 2019, she curated live poetry and music event series in Los Angeles, London, Edinburgh, and Berlin.

E. Amato holds a BFA in film from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a Certificate in Directing from the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film and Television Studies.

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Majority Rules Sci-fi ⋄ Drama When youth are indentured caretakers to an aging elite hoarding wealth and technology to live decades beyond their natural lifetimes, Rachel, Charlie, Kitty, and Zach fight to survive their servitude—and to destroy the system altogether.
Baby$itting Money (formerly The Babysitting Diaries) Comedy ⋄ Drama Desperate to keep up with her school’s Jewy ‘80s Long Island fashionistas, a neglected booksmart 8th grader sacrifices precious social time to corner the babysitting market for a village of wealthy moms who dole out cake, life lessons, and make-up tips.
Turning Tables Comedy ⋄ Drama Dumped, fired, broke, homeless, and hopeless, hardworking, self-sacrificing Fran flips a chance meeting with an A-list producer into a high-powered career opportunity in this dramedy about second chances, impostor syndrome, and payback.
Potential Energy Budget: $0 - $100K | Independent ⋄ Drama Exhauted by routine, Janice is a wife and mom on the edges of a meltdown who is searching to reconnect in even the tiniest of ways.
Not Fade Away Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama When college-freshman Annie learns she’s pregnant, she’s on a road trip following the Grateful Dead with high school friends who ecstatically leave behind parents, suburbia, and life choices, while Annie wrestles with the uncertainty of her own future.

Awards

Semifinalist, Filmmatic - Pitch Now Screenplay Competition Season 5 (Baby$itting Money)
(2023)
Honorable Mention, Best Script Award - London (Baby$itting Money)
(2023)
Semifinalist Pitch Now! (Majority Rules)
(2022)
2nd Round ISA Fast Track Fellowship (Baby$itting Money)
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic - Inroads Fellowship Season 5 (Majority Rules)
(2022)
Semifinalist, Stage 32 SciFi/Fantasy Screenwriting Competition (Majority Rules)
(2022)
Quarterfinalist Stage 32 Female Driven Screenwriting Competition (Baby$itting Money)
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards Season 7 (Baby$itting Money)
(2022)
Genre Winner SciFi Fantasy Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices (Majority Rules)
(2021)
Semifinalist Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices (Baby$itting Money)
(2021)
Semifinalist The Writers Lab NYC (Majority Rules)
(2021)
Quarterfinalist Stage 32 Drama Competition (Majority Rules)
(2021)
Top 100 Table Read My Screenplay (Majority Rules)
(2020)
Quarterfinalist Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition (Majority Rules)
(2020)
Shortlisted Amazon Studios Writer Slam (Majority Rules)
(2019)