John D. Scott is Associate Professor of Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies and the Director of the documentary studies and production degree at Ithaca College. His films have won multiple awards and glowing reviews in the US and Canada. His short films have played internationally in over twenty countries. He has directed two critically acclaimed feature-length documentaries that have been distributed nationally by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Reviewers called Scouts are Cancelled a “cinematic marvel … ” and “a literary portrait you won’t soon forget”; Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing, “a mesmerizing 84-minute masterpiece.”
His films often find creative intersections between fiction and documentary approaches to filmmaking. Prior to joining academia, he worked as an independent producer and editor. He worked as a field producer atStreet Cents,a Gemini Award winning show at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He earned a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University, a BA in Honours English form Dalhousie University, and an MFA in Film and Video Production from the University of Iowa. Scott teaches documentary production, fiction production, video essay, and editing courses. Scott grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada and identifies as a Maritimer.