Anne Cattaruzza

Screenwriter

Montréal, Canada

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August 2019

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About Anne

Born in France, Canadian award-winning author ANNE CATTARUZZA made herself known as an actress to the Quebec audience in a television series. Anne won The Kairos Prize at the 28th Movie Guide Awards in Los Angeles in 2020 for her screenplay Searching for Sheida, co-authored with Kim Feeney and based on her award-winning novel of the same name. The same year, the script won two other awards in Canada and placed in different contests. Anne’s script Mia’s child won the Lonely Wolf 2022 International Film Festival for Best Feature Screenplay, The Word Guild Award and was selected at the Prague Film Fest.

DISTINCTIONS

• Lonely Wolf Best Feature Screenplay for Searching for Sheida (the script), 2022, UK
• Kairos Prize Award-winner for Searching for Sheida (the script), 2020, USA
• The Art of Film Making Screenplay Festival Award-winner for Searching for Sheida (the script), 2020, CANADA
• Word Guild Award-winner for Searching for Sheida (the script), 2020, CANADA
• Word Guild Award-winner for Le peuple caché (The Hidden People), 2019, CANADA
• Word Guild finalist for Searching for Sheida (the novel), 2017, Toronto, CANADA
• Word Guild Award-winner for À la recherche de Shéïda (French version of Searching for Sheida, the novel), 2016, Toronto, CANADA
• “Festival des Radiophonies” finalist (Radiophonic Festival) for Coppélia, 2004, FRANCE

Unique traits: I'm writing mostly Faith-Based Action-Packed stories.

Gender:
Female

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SEARCHING FOR SHEIDA is a three-time awarded screenplay: The Kairos Prize, The Word Guild Awards & The Art of Film Making Screenplay Festival and has been selected in several others contests Creative Screenwriting contest, International Christian Film & Music Film Festival, Page Turner Screenplay Faith Based Competition, Wiki Screenplay contest )

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TOM"S TOUCH Budget: $1M - $5M | Fantasy ⋄ Family A newborn with special healing powers mysteriously appears to a small-town family. When he grows into a young boy, his supernatural abilities will restore his fragmented family and change the most unlikely of destinies.
SEARCHING FOR SHEIDA Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller When a spirited journalist finds out a Christian woman is facing a death sentence in Iran, she travels to the Middle East in an attempt to rescue her and discovers a secret from the past that will change their destinies forever.
RIPPLE IN TIME Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Mystery An intuitive young woman desperately searches for her husband who disappeared under strange circumstances, but soon finds all evidence of his existence is fading away.
MIA'S CHILD Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Adventure After a devastating earthquake, a woman’s faith helps her through the loss of a child and securing the adoption of a lonely boy from India.