It's only in your head...
the worst place it could be.
ABOUT CHATTER
Based on the National Endowment for the Arts Scholarship-winning 2017 dark comedic play, CHATTER explores the destructive voices that tear us down from within our own mind.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Natasha Lewin is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright. In 2019 she made her directorial debut with her dark comedy, CHATTER, which qualified for the 92 Academy Awards as Best Live Action Short.
In 2020, CHATTER won Best Unique & Artistic Film at the UCLAxFilmFest as well as Director's Choice at the FilmOneFest.
Natasha is the creator and showrunner of 2020's narrative podcast, WHITE PRIVILEGE : RADIO PLAY.
In 2018, Natasha took home the Black List x Women in Film Feature Fellowship for her script FREEDOM RIDES about the 1961 Freedom Riders.
In 2017, as a first-time playwright, Natasha was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Hollywood Fringe Diversity Scholarship for CHATTER. She partnered with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and donated a portion of their sold-out box office. CHATTER won Australia’s Short + Sweet Award for its run.
In 2014, Natasha co-wrote the Best Feature-winning screenplay STONER ROAD at the Laugh Factory’s Comedy Ninja Film Festival.
A four-time published author (one being a New York Times' bestseller), Natasha is also the co-creator and showrunner of ONCE UPON A TIMESTAMP alongside Randi Zuckerberg. This podcast updates fairy tales into modern, cautionary tales relating to tech addiction, gender bias, racism and misogyny.
She's a former LA elected official + Homeless Liaison to Mayor Garcetti; Managing Editor for High Times magazine; Chief Writing Officer for Zuckerberg Media.
Natasha is a Big Sister for Big Brothers Big Sisters, she's on the Diversity Scholarship Committee for the Hollywood Fringe as well as their ACCESS committee, she works with the Parity Project and is a member of the NAACP.
Natasha's a huge baseball fan, specifically for the LA Dodgers because of Sandy Koufax and Jackie Robinson, her Black and Jewish heroes.
She is repped by DaVida Chanel Smith of Etcetera & Co. davida@etcandcompany.
STATEMENT FROM THE WRITER/DIRECTOR
I create the AEIOU:
"Ahhhhh, that was smart!
"eeeee.... that was awkward"
"I been there."
"OOOOH!! Zing!!"
"Uhhhh, like for REAL real?!"
And sometimes Y:
Why NOT?"