Daphne Russell
Founder/Director at Books Save Lives 501(c)3
Screenwriter
Tucson, Arizona
January 2020
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About Daphne
I’m a lifelong educator and truth-seeker who spent over 35 years in the classroom. What I saw missing in the way we teach reading wasn’t strategy—it was belief. Students weren’t failing to read because they lacked skill. They were carrying the weight of beliefs that told them they didn’t belong in books.
I developed a literacy method not to teach reading, but to untangle it—to help people unlearn the idea that they’re “not readers” and reconnect with books as mirrors of their power and humanity.
The Book of Abel is an extension of that mission. It’s not a savior teacher story. It’s a story about what happens when a teacher stops performing and starts listening. It’s about banned books, buried voices, and one quiet act of belief that sets off a reading revolution.
This screenplay isn’t just a story—it’s the next step in reshaping how we think about literacy, publishing, and the stories we decide are worth telling.
Unique traits: Determined, bordering obsessive, about issues I feel need to be addressed using digital media as the method of delivery. If Chihuahua sales went up with the release of Legally Blonde and more people hiked the Pacific Coast Trail because of Wild then I think it's a fair estimation to assume book sales for teens will sky rocket because of The Book of Abel.
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The Book of Abel Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Biography What if the most radical thing a teacher ever did...was hold up a mirror?
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