The Bio goes like this:

As a Field Producer with Street Cents (a consumer and media advocacy show for teenagers produced at The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), Scott shared, (among other awards) a Gemini Award (Canada’s Emmy) for Best Youth Series.  Scott has directed eleven independent film and/or video works that have traveled to festivals and events throughout the US, Canada and South America.  His most recent production, the feature length project Scouts Are Cancelled will premiere in 2007 at North America's largest documentary film festival The Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival in Toronto.  His next most recent project Dear Pam has won five awards and distinctions and was one of eight documentaries from Canada chosen to screen at The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC in a series entitled New Canadian Documentary.  Dear Pam’s awards included “The Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary” at The Denver Underground Film Festival and a “Jury Award” at The New York Film and Video Expo.

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I teach advanced and intermediate fiction and non-fiction courses at Ithaca College and the video workshop course.  I am thrilled to teach at Ithaca College because students here continuously surprise & inspire me.

EDUCATION

            MFA Film and Video Production, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1999.

            BA Honours English, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1992.

            BFA Film Production, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, 1990.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Audience Choice Award Best Documentary, The Denver Underground Film Festival, 2003 for Dear Pam.

Jury Award Winner, The New York Film and Video Expo, 2003, for Dear Pam.

Juror’s Citation, The Iowa City International Documentary Festival, 2004, for Dear Pam.

Third Prize in the Independent Documentary Category, The Canadian Annual Independent Film and Video Festival, 2003 for Dear Pam.

Best of The Festival Screening, Boston Cyberarts Festival, 2003 for Dear Pam.

Nominated for Canada’s Golden Sheaf Award for “Best Documentary: Short Subject” at The Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival, 2004 for Dear Pam.

National Gallery of Art Screening 2003: Dear Pam was one of eight documentaries chosen to represent Canada’s New Canadian Documentaries at The National Gallery of Art in DC.  Opened screening series.

Director’s Choice Award, The Black Maria Film and Video Festival, 1999, for Almanac.

Special Jury Award, THAW 98: International Festival of Film, Video and Digital Arts, Iowa City, IA, for the film Almanac.

Best of Festival Selection Screening, Almanac screened on PBS affiliate in three year retrospective of the Best of The Double Take Documentary Festival, 2001.

Honorable Mention, 1998, Hardacre Film Festival, Tipton, IA, for Almanac.

Gemini Award, (Canada’s Emmy) Best Youth Series, 1994, as one of the Field Producers with Street Cents, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Production, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The Linda Joy Busby Media Arts Foundation Medallion/PFA Award, one thousand dollars in lab services, won at The Atlantic Film Festival, 1994 as the Director/Producer of Passing Through.