REBECCA SCOTTYou're LISTENING to THE SHOW Rebecca Scott is a passionately, irreverent, young writer/director, interested in subverting media expectations, through creating narrative art, that investigates the “other”. Out of the box films, that speak to the small moments that foster big change. Born and raised in London England, Rebecca went to high school in Los Angeles California, and Collage at Hampshire Collage in Massachusetts, and NYU in New York City. Majoring in a self directed program of film production and social theory. Rebecca has also lived in New Zealand, Montreal, India, and Prague. With the help of her amazing screenwriter/journalist/politician father she made her first film when she was six years old called “Snowy Goes to the Moon”. She orchestrated her High School schedule so she could leave school at 12:30 to intern at MTV, take collage classes and work in development at Fire Works Films. Rebecca wrote and directed a short film last year entitled “St. California” and has made several other short films touching on subjects like sex, truth, death, power dynamics, loss, dark comedy, and family. Rebecca got her start in the Art Department working for David Lynch and has subsequently Production Designed five feature films, Art directed two others, and recently Production Designed a web TV show for Fox. Although she is 5’9 she has been a stand in for Samantha Mathis (5’2), and a stuntwoman for Mimi Rogers. Most recently Rebecca wrote and directed a web TV show entitled “Party Psychic” that can be viewed at –http://www.youtube.com/bloodandwhiskeyfilms. This is her first submission to a script contest, and pleasantly her first win, although she is also a semi finalist at the Southern California Film Festival with her script “The Crossing”. Rebecca has written several feature length screenplays, and spec TV pilots, comedy, dramedy, and thrillers, she is currently seeking funding for a feature she will direct, and looking for representation from an agent or manager. Her short screenplay THE CROSSING read at the WILDsound Screenplay Festival in August 2008
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