Natalia Shaufert

Logline: BOOKEND is a four-season true story inspired by my mother’s life — a serialized narrative told in reverse, from the present back to her childhood.

A one-hour, single-camera dark comedy-drama set in a British-American Moldova. Think: redneck slang with a British accent. 

A “somewhat” Made-up place. 

Each episode doesn't ask “What happens next?”—but rather, “How the hell did we get here?”

Each season, Sonia runs a new business and adapts to a new decade of her life. 

Season 1: A HOUSE THAT FEEDS HER

Season 2: THE BODEGA 

Season 3: STREET HUSTLE

Season 4: BULLY BOYS

Bio: Natalia Shaufert is a Moldovan-American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. She is a graduate alumnus of the Dramatic Writing Department at NYU 2025. She writes slightly distorted real-life stories that emphasize, hyperbolize and satirize societal dilemmas and tragic, man-made fates. Natalia holds a film degree and an MFA in Directing animation from Academy of Arts in Moldova. She has been internationally awarded for her short films ANA, MOTHER NATURE and YOU AND ME and for her feature film RESENTMENT. 

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