Maria Restivo Glassner
Director, Screenwriter and Singer
Scottsdale, Arizona
August 2022
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About Maria
When I was seven years old, I watched Alice in Wonderland for the first time, and I felt like my creative world was awakened. It was so different and layered, I knew I wanted to be part of that somehow. Being Black, Italian, and Jewish, I grew up in a household of extremes and paradoxes as a way of life. For me, finding my voice happens through the pen more readily than the tongue. I come from a family of healers and have an education in Oriental Medicine, however my favorite mode of healing is through humor and the arts.
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A Nobel Failure Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy After corporate fires her for curing cancer but daring to proceed ethically, a blackballed scientist must prove her concerns aren’t just “female hysterics” before genetic alteration sets in and men like her chauvinistic father give birth.
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The Persuasion Equation Comedy Lyla, a brilliant scientist who gets in her way, is forced to team up with her handsome, more persuasive counterpart, Thomas, to solve the world's unsolvable problems; at the same time, they create more hilarious issues in the attempt.
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The Man with the Heavy Face Thriller A man who wants to undergo surgery to change his race is forced to face the dark reason why.
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Capacity Sci-fi A newly-orphaned teenage girl ends up sparking a chain of events in a world that views her as an enemy. She must find a way to live amongst them and yet still be able to live with herself.
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It's In The Blood Thriller Each night Nicolas' mind calls out to a world governed by magic and mystery, only now that world answers back.
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Fable Budget: $0 - $100K | Experimental Two siblings must stick together to save their parent's from dark mystical forces, on a journey that is anything but normal.
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The Wooden Doctor A young man fights for his life between this world and an alternate universe to find his way back to existence.
Credits
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FABLE (
2010 - 2012 )
Film Director/Writer Young Simon confronts an intruder trying on costumes in his family's clothing warehouse/home. This unwanted visitor is the king of a magical cult. Simon sees that the king is searching for his true identity and no longer sees him as evil. Simon is gentle and understanding. The king is vulnerable and human but Simon knows it is too late to help him. Unfortunately, the king and his magical cult have destroyed too many people's lives to be redeemed. They have done something far worse than simply taking over the city; they have taken away the people's will to live. What will happen now that the two worlds have collided? What will the king do to Simon? The innocence of youth that Simon represents confronts the murky confusion of the king's self-entrapment. In the Fable, the journey of each character's self-discovery is uniquely interwoven. In order to understand ourselves we must first understand each other.
Awards
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"Sinking Stars" California Music Video Awards Finalist
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ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Quarter-finalist "The Man with the Heavy Face"
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Music Video Awards Finalist "Sinking Stars"
(2023) -
Paris Music Video Underground Nominee Best Solo Artist
(2023) -
Global Music Awards Silver Medalist Best Female Vocals
(2023) -
Emerging Screenwriters Sci-Fi and Fantasy Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalist "Capacity"
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"A Nobel Failure" Winner Best Comedy Screenplay Portland Comedy Film Festival
(2022) -
Filmmatic comedy screenplay awards (season 7) Quarter-finalist "A Nobel Failure"
(2022) -
Second Rounder, Launch Pad Prose Competition 6th Annual "The Man with the Heavy Face"
(2022) -
Search for New Blood Screenwriting Contest Semifinalist "A Nobel Failure"
(2022) -
"Total Eclipse of the Charts" Music Video Parody Finalist in Portland Comedy Film festival
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"Total Eclipse of the Charts" Parody Highest Commendation London-worldwide Comedy Film festival
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"It's In the Blood" Quarterfinalist in Screencraft's Cinematic Novel Competition
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"Fable" Official Selection 2012 at AFI World Peace Festival
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"Stains" PSA Finalist in Film Your issue competition
(2007)
Education
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University of Illinois at Springfield
(2007-2009) -
Scottsdale Community College
(2006-2009)
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