Elaine Chang

Author, Screenwriter, Film/theatre Journalist and Story Analyst

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January 2024

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About Elaine

I'm a writer, teacher, scholar, and daughter of Korean immigrant parents to Canada. I hold a Stanford University PhD and MA and have enjoyed a professional career that has immersed me in literature and film, across all media and genres, that I've studied closely, loved and admired, yet primarily from the outside in. As a screenwriter and poet, new(ish) to both crafts, I have been turning that the other way around (or somewhat "inside out").

I am drawn to and I create stories that feature people learning to recognize and hone their individual and combined talents and "soft powers" to overcome injustice and hardship. My main genres are comedy-satire, mystery, thriller, and drama. I have studied and taught literary adaptation for the screen extensively and would be especially interested in opportunities to work in this area.

I have trained in the prestigious Norman Jewison Feature Film Program, as a screenwriter-resident, at the Canadian Film Centre; and received recognition for my work including the Best Screenplay Award at the 2023 LA Femme International Film Festival for my comedy-satire feature script entitled MADAM WOW, and grants from Telefilm Canada's Writer's First, the Canada Arts Council, and the Ontario Council for the Arts. I was also a finalist for the 2024 San Francisco Independent Film Festival Screenplay Award, and a semi-finalist in the 2024 Catalyst Studios/Stage 32 Empowering Women Screenplay Competition (for MADAM WOW); and I placed as one of three finalists for the Nantucket Film Festival's Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Award (for a political thriller entitled HALF-LIFE).

Gender:
Female

Ethnicity:
Asian

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Awards

San Francisco Independent Film Festival Best Screenplay Award - Finalist
(2024)
Catalyst Studios/Stage 32 Empowering Women Screenplay Award - Semifinalist
(2024)
LA Femme International Film Festival Best Screenplay Award
(2023)
Nantucket Film Festival Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Award
(2009)
Ontario Arts Council
(2009)
Canada Council for the Arts
(2007)
Telefilm Canada Writer's First - Treatment to First Draft
(2006)

Education

Canadian Film Centre
(2009-2010)
Stanford University
University of British Columbia