“Scott is a quiet pleasant well motivated pupil who can be relied upon to carry out any task conscientiously. He displays a sensible, mature attitude to school and has the respect and friendship of his peers. He has a good rapport with adults and has a good sense of humour and sense of fun. He lacks confidence in his abilities and is a born worrier, when he has little to worry about!”
Mrs Robertson
Primary 4 Teacher
Scott is now a filmmaker.
His work has been broadcasted on television (NPO DOC, Holland Doc24, Community Channel) and has screened at prestigious venues such as British Film Institute Southbank, Somerset House and Whitechapel Gallery.
Scott completed a degree at Edinburgh College of Art where he studied documentary filmmaking and obtained a First-Class honours. On graduation he was awarded a Helen A. Rose bequest for Distinguished work by University of Edinburgh for his experimental film, Tapes From The Revolutionary, which was nominated for Channel 4 Innovation in Storytelling Award, won IdeasTap Graduate Award: Short Film 2015, in association with BAFTA, televised by dutch national broadcaster, NPO DOC and winner of DOCfeed Best International Short Film Award 2016, Silveron International Film Festival ‘Best Documentary’ and Hammerbrook Film Festival 2015.
His short film, Dear Peter was nominated for BAFTA Scotland New Talent for best factual and won the Glasgow Short Film Festival Audience Award 2016. Dear Peter has currently been Shortlisted for The Independent Award : Creative Edinburgh Awards 2016, for outstanding contribution.
His short film, E215. won Publica’s Clerkenwell Screen Shorts Competition where it had an outdoor screening at Clerkenwell Design week. E215 has been selected for Luminous Latitude Tour which has the aim to raise the international exposure of Scotland based artists making visually experimental and culturally subversive moving image work of the highest standard.
Scott was asked to document Joe Caslin’s Our Nations Sons which went on to win New Talent Award at Association of Illustrators an was then exhibited at Somerset House, London at AOI Award Exhibition. As co-producer Scott was nominated for a Scottish New Talent BAFTA for his contributions for Duncan Cowles’ Radio Silence.
As an animator Scott won IdeasTap Sixty Second Shorts for his film Guide To Fetal Development, which was followed by a screening at British Film Institute Southbank. The animation was exhibited on subway platform screens across Toronto’s transit system, reaching over one million daily commuters in September 2015.
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