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DEBORAH AMELON is an Emmy and ACE award nominated writer, a New York Times bestselling author, and an international award- winning filmmaker with both producing and directing credits.
She has written numerous movies for television, series, and theatrical features. Her credits include EXIT TO EDEN, TRICKS, THE LAST SHOT, HUNGER POINT, WHEN HE WAS SAM, NASH BRIDGES, PARENT TRAP II and CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL.
EXIT TO EDEN is an adaptation of the ANNE RICE novel and was directed by Garry Marshall. She also wrote TRAVELING SALESLADY for Garry Marshal and Rastar.
She won the Samuel Goldwyn Award for her screenplay of TRICKS, a theatrical release starring Mimi Rogers and Tyne Daly, produced by and airing on Showtime. To research this story of a Las Vegas prostitute Amelon went underground in the Vegas world of vice.
Ms. Amelon won the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award for both writing and directing THE LAST SHOT, which was also a finalist in the Oscar Short Film Category, and starred Garry Marshall and Adam Baldwin.
CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL is the series based on the best-selling books. She directed the pilot from which PAX-TV gave the greenlight for the series. She was the series� showrunner, overseeing the writing staff and producing 122 of the stories, as well as directing eight of the stories.
Amelon won a prestigious Writer�s Guild Award for her original ABC MOW, KATIE�s CHOICE.
She has worked with Directors such as Garry Marshall, Martha Coolidge, Nicholas Meyer, and Penny Marshall, and Producers such as Academy Award winner Wendy Finerman, Emmy winner Orly Adelson, and prolific television producers Robert Sertner and Howard Braunstein.
At CBS, she developed, researched, and wrote the prestigious project, ROCKET WOMEN about the female pilots known as the Mercury 13.
Her film adaptation of the Jillian Medoff novel, HUNGER POINT, presently airs on Lifetime and stars Barbara Hershey. The movie received stellar reviews in the Hollywood Reporter and the Los Angeles Times, spotlighting Amelon�s writing as �something extraordinary� and became the highest rated movie in its debut month.
A dual American and Canadian citizen, Amelon wrote the MOW, TARNISHED GOLD, for CTV, the story of Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, the Canadian Pair Team awarded the second Gold Medal in the Salt Lake Olympic judging scandal.
She wrote year-long bibles for three CBS soap operas, which sent their daytime ratings to the top one, two, and three, and were Emmy nominated.
She worked closely with Emmy award winning actor, Joe Mantegna, on her screenplay, the thriller NO ONE WAS WATCHING. She adapted the romantic comedy, OUT OF THE BLUE from the Laura Castora novel, A NEW LU.
She co-authored Dorothy Hamill�s story, A SKATING LIFE, which soared onto the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST, just four days after publication in October 2007. This National Bestseller debuted in paperback in October 2008.
Amelon wrote the screenplay, THE FRUITS OF VICTORY, working with legend Tommy Lasorda on the story of the American Gold Medal win in baseball at the Sydney Summer Olympics.
She wrote the high school comedy, REALLY CUTE GIRLS, and the romantic comedy, SHE�s COME UNDONE, both originall screenplays. She's written both one hour and half hour pilots, namely, DISORDER IN THE UNIVERSE, a single camera comedy.
Ms. Amelon graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in English Literature from UCLA and attended its Graduate School of Film and Television. Before college she skated with Shipstad and Johnson�s ICE FOLLIES, culminating a career as a competitive figure skater.
She has been a Visiting Professor at UCLA, teaching screenwriting in the Graduate School of Film and Television, and guest lectured at the UCLA Conference Center in Lake Arrowhead for several years. She and her husband, architect Robert Huddy, have two sons, Addison and Walker.
Reviews
Hunger Point (2003)
By far the The Best Movie on Lifetime
Lifetime went brave in this movie. They were way ahead of their time. They took on a subject so enormous many were too afraid to touch or pretended it was not important enough to touch. Body image in young women. Obviously it is a very important subject because it is in the top mind of everyone. Kudos to the writer for crafting a screenplay far more true and interesting than the book, much of it based on her own sisters' trouble with eating disorders. The LA Times said it was THE most important movie on the subject of all time and that every mother and daughter should watch it. The Hollywood Reporter said Ms. Amelon's writing is extraordinary and she should get an Emmy for the movie. Too bad the director threw in the scene about the websites, something that wasn't in the book. Reviews have been critical on that scene and the writer was right in trying to keep it out of the movie. Over all, the movie should have been a feature and nominated instead for an Oscar.
God's Favorite Idiot (2022)
Save McCarthy
Please stop the brilliant Melissa McCarthy from doing one more thing written and directed by her non talented hubby. He's just one of those entitled, narcissistic males who arrogantly think they are funny but are nauseatingly annoying. Somebody tell him to stop wasting HER precious years so she can continue to do brilliant work.... WITHOUT HIM.
Workin' Moms (2017)
BY FAR RIGHT NOW THE BEST SHOW ON NETFLIX AND ON ALL TV AND IN FILM
Funny, funny, and more funny. This series should be required viewing for all humans. It should be shown in schools to students before they graduate so they learn some inkling of the realities of having babies. It is fun and frustrating and almost impossible. This shows captures all the pain and the humor of the brave women who do the impossible. It's real and raw and you will love it, whether of not you have children. The best part is that it tells the stories from the women's point of view. Each of them is an incredibly developed personality and character, exactly how I know the women in my life to be but NEVER see them portrayed on screen. Why? Because most film and Tv are written by males. Males are incapable of writing about women. Males only write their own fantasies and stereotypes of women, what they wish women to be, what they've gleaned from other male literature, male written and directed film, their unconscious biases litter and spoil the work. Males know nothing of a woman' s world and don't care to know, don't care to learn and it always shows. Women can always write men well because they have to live within a man's world. It's all they are taught, all they get in school, is male literature, male history, male art, male film and TV, they go to male sports games, are stuck in this awful patriariarchy and hate it. But thank god, they make fun of it! It's the only way to get through the days. All men should be expected to be Women's Studies majors before they try to become writers but that will never happen because they are egomaniacs. The United States should be ashamed that there is NO work in TV and Film that begins to emulate the POV of this outstanding series. It took Canada to give it to us. Applause to them. It should be required viewing to show all the stuffy old, it still terribly immature male writers of the WGA so they understand the level of writing they must achieve but never will. Because they are just men. And will never evolve. Brave to the women who are bringing THIS world TO the world. Keep it up. And to the US, get your own show like this, you idiots! These characters reflect truth of how everyone feels!!!