Kiel Adrian Scott

Award-winning writer-director Kiel Adrian Scott's film and television works are investigations of the psychological ramifications of living in modern society. They meaningfully explore the conflicts often found at the intersections of ideology, race, gender, sexuality, and class. Scott directed BET's hit television movie The Bobby Brown Story. The three-hour film, which aired in two parts, won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Television Movie, Limited Series or Dramatic Special. Premiering to 6.6 million viewers, the bio-pic made BET the #1 Most Social Cable Primetime Network for two nights in a row. Following the success of The Bobby Brown Story, Scott went on to direct eight episodes of OWN's Peabody Award-winning series David Makes Man. The series, from Academy Award-winning Moonlight screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney, is a coming-of-age story about a teenage prodigy navigating the incredible opportunities and extraordinary dangers of two very different worlds: one of academic privilege, the other, a community in need. Among Scott's other acclaimed works are the featurette Samaria, his NYU thesis, which won a Directors Guild of America Student Film Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, the Audience Award at the Urbanworld Film Festival, and the Spike Lee Production Award. Samaria was also a finalist in the Student Academy Awards, Scott's second time as a finalist in the lauded competition. The film explores the very real human cost of corporate and societal apathy in the midst of environmental catastrophe. Scott's short film, The Roe Effect, won several major film festivals, including, but not limited to Best Short Film at the American Black Film Festival's HBO Short Film Competition, Best Narrative Short at the Urbanworld Film Festival, and the Saatchi & Saatchi Nothing Is Impossible Producer's Award. The film was nominated for Best Independent Mini Feature at the Black Reel Awards and was included in Cannes Film Festival's Court Métrage. The film explores what happens to the mind, heart and soul of a person when their agency and bodily autonomy are stripped away. Of the film, Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme remarked, "The Roe Effect is exquisitely made, Fantastic in every single aspect. Kiel is an incredibly exciting new American filmmaker. Bravo!" After completing New York University's Graduate Film Program, where Scott was awarded a full tuition scholarship, was a Dean's Fellowship, a Spike Lee Fellow, and served as Professor Spike Lee's Graduate Teaching Assistant, Scott served as Spike Lee's Assistant on his professional projects. In that capacity Scott shadowed Lee on projects ranging from commercials and feature films to a Broadway play. Scott later collaborated with his mentor Lee as a co-writer on his NBA 2K16 in-game feature film Livin' Da Dream. Scott is an alumnus of the HALF Initiative, Ryan Murphy's television directing program, where he had the privilege of shadowing legendary actor and director Angela Bassett. Scott is also a graduate of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science of Art where he studied fine art, with a focus on painting and photography, before expanding his creative practice to include film and literature. For more information on Kiel Adrian Scott please visit: www.kieladranscott.com