Stella Scott: About

 
 

Stella Scott is a director and writer from London. She graduated from Central Saint Martins in Performance: Design and Practice.

Her original work has been commissioned by BBC Film, Film London, Gucci, Chanel, the Tate, Dazed Digital, Art Night and Victoria Miro and screened at festivals worldwide. She was part of iFeatures 19/20 programme.

Contact and Representation

studio@stellascott.net

Commercials and Music Videos:
Jamie Walker | Pulse Films
jamie.walker@pulsefilms.co.uk

Fashion and Beauty:
Kate Ryder | Together Associates
kate@togetherassociates.com

Film and TV:
Kelly Knatchbull | Sayle Screen
kelly@saylescreen.com

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"As a youth worker, I needed a storytelling medium that teenagers would enjoy using. I made my first documentaries with them, and loved the immediacy of it as much as they did — I was hooked and have been developing my storytelling methods ever since."

— Stella Scott, interview ninunina.com

 

 
 

Filmography

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Nothing Beats Being There | LFC | Expedia
Ball of The Wild Men | Short
Claire Foy | Vogue | Moncler
Artist Series | HUGO
Back to The Bridge | Chelsea FC | Three
Virtuoso | Short
Cycle | Amun ft. Safe
Get Pounds | Amun
Bulldozer | Short | BBC Film
Cedar Milk | Film
Gerry’s Pompeii | Film
Of Time and Space | Short
The World of Simone Rocha | Farfetch
The Future’s Not Cancelled | BBC News
60 Years in British Music | Tony King
RAF My Two Homes | Livity
Password Change | Olivia Dean
Ok Love You Bye | Olivia Dean
Spice World Tour Encore Film | Spice Girls
To Spoor A Stockroom | Pervilion | 4:3
G*URLhood | Image series
Lynn and Linda | Short
Nike Dreamers | Nike
The Millie Bag | Mulberry | iD
Let’s Talk About You Amber Mark | W Records
Montana | Nowness | Farfetch
dayfly Dean | Pulse Films
Primary Colours | King Kofi
A Night Out With Zoë Kravitz | Vogue | YSL
My Morning After | ellaOne
WATCHOUT | Flohio
Damien Hirst | Nowness | Mulberry
Black Country Fusion | Carling
Christian Louboutin | Vogue
Estée Lauder | Vogue
Glin Castle | Nowness
The Fox & Goldfinch | Short
Nights Pass Slow | Short
Floating | Dita Eyewear
Getting To Know Gugu Mbatha-Raw | Vogue
Stories of Young with Naomi Campbell | Nike
Chimera Social | Hewlett Packard
Naomi Shimada | Google Labs
Access All Angles | Dazed | Huawei
In The Bag with Edie Campbell | Vogue | YSL
The Unmaking of a Fragrance | i-D | Chanel
The Fox & Goldfinch | Short
Rauschenberg | Tate
The Performers: Act I | Condé Nast | GUCCI
Zelalem (Vector of Light) | Mikael Seifu
Reverie | Short | Dazed Digital 
The Roots of British Style | River Island
The Last Shadow Puppets | British GQ
Louise Nevelson | Tate
Chirico | SHOWStudio
Away With The Fairies | Tom Rosenthal
Barbara Hepworth Letters | Tate
The Lovers | Tate
Finding Hal | Short  
Brinkworth | Short
LA Influencers | adidas | U-Dox
Street Angel | Short | Dazed Digital
21st Birthday | Told by an Idiot
Never Try This At Home | Told by an Idiot
Wild Worlds | Artful Badger  
School 21 Primary | Blanket
Between Us | Kid’s Company
Show and Tell | Kid’s Company

Publications

Fed From The Future / Stella Scott / Edward Sogunro 2019 ©
Introduction to David Harrison’s Flowers of Evil | Victoria Miro
Feature on David Harrison Pleasure Garden Issue 2 A/W 2017

Misc. Roles

Kids Company Youth Worker
Cut Films Youth Awards (judging panel)
LSFF 2018 (panel discussion)
Central Saint Martins MA Performance Design & Practice (teaching session)
Roundhouse (mentor)

Education

2004-2005 UAL Foundation Diploma (Distinction)
2005-2007 UAL Performance Design and Practice BA (First-Class Honours)

 

Awards, Exhibitions and Screenings

Virtuoso

Frightfest 2023
British Shorts Berlin 2024

Gerry’s Pompeii

Central Scotland Documentary Festival 2023

Bulldozer | BBC Film | Try Hard Films

BFI and BBC Film British Film Premiere second season 2023
Bolton Film Festival 2022
Underwire Film Festival 2022
London Short Film Festival 2021

Password Change | Olivia Dean

Shortlisted for best music video at UKMVA 2020

Human Microphone | Pervilion | Art Night, 2019

To Spoor A Stockroom | Silver Building, 2019

Reverie | Dazed

Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2017
Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2017
Barbican Festival Chronic Youth 2017
East End Film Festival 2017
Black International Film Festival 2017
LifAwards Best Experimental Short
London Independent Film Awards 2017
movies4movies 2017
LABF Festival 2017
Portobello Film Festival 2017
Underwire Festival best editing nominee 2017
LSFF 2018

Street Angel | Dazed

Vimeo Staff Pick
ING Discerning Eye 2016
Frontline 2015
The Smalls 2015
CPH: Market 2015

Finding Sol | Film London

Underwire Film Festival 2010
Renoir Cinema Audience Award 2009
Best of Boroughs Nomination 2009

Press

"The Fox & Goldfinch documents a love of wildlife in urban London' - Milk

"Scott’s unique style combines a natural affinity for storytelling with the unobtrusive study of people to find beautiful images in everyday situations."
LBBonline

Stella Scott is a talented British visual artist.” — ninunina.com

"Stella Scott set out to examine the mindset of the young generation in post-Brexit Britain." — girlsinfilm, on Reverie

"A much-needed vivid depiction of youthful optimism"
— Dazed, on Reverie

”'Made Local' Campaign Shines Spotlight on LGBTQ+ Football Team”
— David Reviews, on Black Country Fusion

"The Primal Scream frontman muses on his creative hero Jean Genet." — girlsinfilm

”A reflection on the gentrification-led clean-up of London’s centre”
— iD, on To Spoor A Stockroom

”Filmmaker Stella Scott tracks liquid cycles that confront the sanitised the future and fetishisation of space in central London.”
- Twin magazine, on To Spoor A Stockroom