E. Amato

E. Amato

Screenwriter, Script Consultant, Script Supervisor and Director

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September 2020
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About E.

E. Amato (she/her/hers) is a bad capitalist curious about radical consent and wild inclusion. E. Amato’s writing celebrates subcultures, especially youth subcultures, in bold narratives told through the gaze of multi-dimensional women characters. Her grounded SciFi pilot Majority Rules is a Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Genre Winner and a Semifinalist for The Writers Lab. She is the editor of Judith Weston’s 25th Anniversary Edition of Directing Actors.

She earned a BFA in Film from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a Certificate in Directing from the American Film Institute. Hit by a drunk driver at the end of her first year at the AFI, she began a lifetime engagement with chronic pain and decreasing mobility. Despite these challenges, E. Amato continued and deepened her creative work, production work as a script supervisor on over 20 indie features, and her community work with foster youth and youth poets. E. Amato has three published poetry collections, produced and performed in consecutive 5-star shows at the Festival Fringe Edinburgh, and spent years as a touring poet.

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  • Majority Rules

    Majority Rules Sci-fi Drama In a future governed by a draconian system that indentures youth to take care of the ageing super rich, a demure but desperate rule-follower warily joins her friends in the struggle for freedom.

  • Baby$itting Money (formerly The Babysitting Diaries)

    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

    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

    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

    Not Fade Away Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama A spirited college-freshman learns she’s pregnant while on a road trip following the Grateful Dead with high school friends who ecstatically leave behind parents, suburbia, and life choices, while she wrestles with the uncertainty of her own future.

Awards

  • Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Drama Competition (Majority Rules)
    (2024)

  • Semifinalist, RespectAbility Lab
    (2024)

  • Semifinalist, Filmmatic - Pitch Now Screenplay Competition Season 5 (Baby$itting Money)
    (2023)

  • Honorable Mention, Best Script Award - London (Baby$itting Money)
    (2023)

  • Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic SciFi Fantasy Competition (Majority Rules)
    (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)

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