Staton Rabin

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Badges

2024-11-05

Writers' Room Member

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BLACK POWDER (screenplay based on my YA sci-fi/fantasy novel from Simon & Schuster). ISA Top Reads - Spring 2026

PAGE Awards Laurel for my spec feature drama-comedy script inspired by a true story, SAVING MARK TWAIN. Script is also an ISA Fast Track Genre Winner, and won the Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition.

BETSY AND THE EMPEROR, my YA novel from Simon & Schuster, published in 15 languages globally. Award-winning (Festival Napoleon in Paris and Montreal Independent Film Festival) feature script and TV pilot scripts based on the book are available.

Videos

"Black Ranger" -- Audio/Video pitch deck for TV pilot script and series proposal based on TImonthy Asby's novel, RANGER.

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Awards

ISA TOP READS Spring 2026 - BLACK POWDER (Based on my YA sci-fi novel from Simon & Schuster)
(2026)
Semifinaliist Stage 32 Period Piece Contest (THE GIRL FROM KRAKOW based on novel by A. Rosenberg)
(2026)
ISA Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch
(2023)
BRONZE AWARD— PAGE Awards ("Saving Mark Twain")
(2023)
Austin Film Festival - Semifinalist (Feature Drama script) - "The Girl From Krakow"
(2023)

Finalist, WeScreenplay Feature Screenwriting Competition
(2022)

Top 10 Finalist in the Genre, Table Read My Screenplay Competition
(2021)

Finalist, SWN Screenwriting Competition
(2021)

Best Unproduced Screenplay, Montreal Independent Film Festival
(2021)

Top 3 Finalist, Dallas International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
(2021)

Winner (Betsy and the Emperor), Festival Napoleon, Paris
(2021)

Genre Winner ISA Fast Track Fellowship
(2020)

Winner, Ridgefield Independent Film Festival Screenplay Competition
(2020)

Top 5 Finalist, Mystic Film Festival Screenplay Competition
(2020)

Finalist, Big Apple Film Festival Screenwriting Contest

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Loglines

"The Girl From Krakow" Budget: $10M - $30M | Military/War ⋄ Romance While on the run from the Nazis, a young Jewish housewife on a desperate search for her kidnapped child joins forces with a fearless woman from the Polish resistance-- igniting a passionate love between them as dangerous as the war itself. An Austin Film Festival Semifinalist feature script by Staton Rabin, based on Alex Rosenberg’s book inspired by his mother’s life during WWII. Afterglow Pictures/Two Jacks attached; seeking co-producers, financing partners, other attachments, etc. "The Girl From Krakow" was previously on Coverfly's Red List.
SAVING MARK TWAIN Budget: $10M - $30M | Biopic / True Story ⋄ Comedy Broke and battling writer's block, Mark Twain thinks things can't get worse, until Rudyard Kipling (23), a starstruck reporter from India, shows up uninvited and steals his teenage daughter's heart, turning his misery into chaos. But in this maddening fanboy, Twain just might find his spark again-- and the unexpected friendship that could save him. Inspired by a true story and public domain IP by Rudyard Kipling. PAGE Awards Bronze Prize winner, genre winner of ISA Fast Track, and winner of Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition. Comps: "Saving Mr. Banks" and "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood".
BETSY AND THE EMPEROR Budget: $10M - $30M | Adventure ⋄ Drama A rebellious teenage English girl befriends the most feared man on earth-- Napoleon Bonaparte-- while he's being held prisoner by the British on the remote island of St. Helena, grows to love him, and risks her life on a dangerous scheme to help him escape. Based on my award-winning YA novel from Simon & Schuster; foreign book publishing rights sold in 15 languages.