Joseph Costa

Costa Creative LLC
Author, Screenwriter and Producer

Tampa, Florida

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About Joseph

Joseph Allen Costa began his career as an award-winning copywriter then producer in NYC. With a love of storytelling and literature, he turned to creating content. Costa has written six full-length screenplays and has optioned two scripts: The Good, The Bad and The Goalie and A Year Without Autumn (which he was hired to adapt from a novel by Liz Kessler). His short script, Wingnut, won the American Screen Gems script competition and his newest script E.L.FIN received a Double Recommend from Stage 32 script coverage placing it in the top 1 percent. Costa is the author of three novels including, The Good, The Bad and The Goalie, Discovering Dynamite, and Eye of the Storm, and one linked collection of short fiction, COMETS published by Unsolicited Press, July 2020. His short stories have appeared in BULL men’s fiction, Rabble Lit, the HCE Review, The Write Launch and in December Magazine as a finalist for the Curt Johnson Prose Awards.

Unique traits: My kids think I can read minds. I don't let on that I can't. My soccer nickname was "el gato." I'm not sure it was a compliment. I make sauce from scratch for Sunday pasta. Yes. It's amazing.

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E.L.Fin Budget: $1M - $5M | Family While hiding out in a North Carolina town and working as a carpenter, Fin, a disgruntled elf, meets his match in Hope, a little girl with Autism. Their unlikely friendship leads to Fin’s redemption and to his understanding the true meaning of Christmas.