ELIZABETH ALLEN (Director) Elizabeth Allen is a versatile filmmaker with a talent for capturing authentic and subversively funny performances from her actors. She is currently preparing to release Ramona and Beezus, the feature film adaptation of her favorite childhood book series by Newbery Award winning author, Beverly Cleary. The film stars Selena Gomez, Ginnifer Goodwin, John Corbett, Josh Duhamel, Sandra Oh, and 9-year old newcomer Joey King as the imaginative Ramona Quimby, and opens on July 23 from Fox.

Next for Allen will be the FOX film Is He the One? Michelle Morgan will write the film, which flashes back to the heroine's three greatest loves before the audience learns who's waiting for her at the altar. She is attached to adapt and direct Elinor Lipman's novel The Pursuit of Alice Thrift (Universal Pictures) and direct the independent film My Mother's Boyfriend (Depth of Field). She has written numerous screenplays, including an adaptation of Jerry Spinelli's children's book, Stargirl (Paramount Studios), original musical Promdress (Disney Features) and Driving While Infatuated (Fox Searchlight). Allen has since directed television episodes of Gossip Girl and Life Unexpected for the CW and will tackle the popular Vampire Diaries in the fall of this year.

Allen attended graduate school at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts where she was awarded the Jack Nicholson Directing Scholarship as the most promising director of her class, and short-listed for an International Clio Award for a spec Coca Cola commercial. She directed her 25-minute thesis film Eyeball Eddie, an edgy dark comedy depicting a stormy relationship between a prosthetic glass eye and the insecure boy stuck behind it, which caught the eye of studios, leading to her feature directorial debut, Aquamarine.

A Cornell University graduate, Allen currently resides in Los Angeles and is a member of the DGA, the WGA and the Editor's Guild.

NICK PUSTAY (Screenwriter) has developed screenplays for several major Hollywood studios, including New Line, Twentieth Century Fox, DreamWorks Animation, Laika, Warner Bros, and Paramount. His list of current projects include an adaptation of the teen novel Shiver for Warner Bros, as well as the animated feature Scarecrow for Laika Entertainment. His first produced script, Camille, directed by Gregory Mackenzie, starring Sienna Miller, James Franco and Scott Glenn, was released in 2009. In addition, Pustay has written several prize-winning short films that have screened at festivals around the world, including Slamdance, Telluride, Cannes, Toronto, St. Petersburg and Clermont-Ferrand, as well as on the PBS Fine Cut TV series.  He earned writing degrees from the USC Graduate School of Cinema-Television and Miami University.

Born and raised in Ohio, Pustay remains an avid fan of the lowly Cleveland Browns.

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