Kiel Adrian Scott

Award-winning writer-director and producer Kiel Adrian Scott's film and television works are investigations of the psychological ramifications of being undervalued and marginalized in modern society. They meaningfully explore the conflicts often found at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, ideology, and class, and are ultimately about the consequences of not caring for others.

In 2021 Scott directed five episodes of the second season of OWN's critically acclaimed drama series David Makes Man. Scott previously directed three episodes of the series' Peabody Award-winning first season. In 2018 Scott directed BET's hit television movie The Bobby Brown Story. The two-part film was nominated for three NAACP Image Awards, winning for Outstanding Television Movie, Limited Series or Dramatic Special. The meme worthy bio-pic premiered with 6.6 million viewers and made BET the #1 Most Social Cable Primetime Network for two nights in a row.

In 2015 Scott wrote, directed, and produced Samaria, which won a Directors Guild of America Student Film Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, the Urbanworld Film Festival Audience Award, and the Spike Lee Production Award. The film was also a finalist in the 2015 Student Academy Awards, Scott's second time as a finalist in the lauded competition.

Scott's previous short film The Roe Effect won several major film festivals as well, 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. Of the film, Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme remarked, "Exquisitely made, fantastic in every single aspect. Kiel is an incredibly exciting new American filmmaker. Bravo."

Scott is an alumnus of New York University's Graduate Film Program where he was awarded a full tuition scholarship, was a Dean's Fellows, a Spike Lee Fellow, and served as Professor Spike Lee's Graduate Teaching Assistant. In the years immediately following his graduation, Scott became Lee's assistant on his professional projects. Scott later collaborated with his mentor Lee as a co-writer on his feature length computer animated video game film NBA 2K16's Livin' Da Dream.

Scott is also an alumnus of the HALF Initiative, Ryan Murphy's television directing mentorship program, where he shadowed legendary actress and director Angela Bassett on the set of American Horror Story. Additionally, Scott is a graduate of the famed arts conservatory The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science of Art where he studied fine art before expanding his creative practice to include film and literature.

Scott is currently developing several projects, among them: a dramatic fiction anthology series for television exploring the American actuality and the consequences of othering, as well as a social-realist Afro-futurism fantasy mythology and transmedia property. In 2023 Scott is slated to direct a long form music film in collaboration with his identical twin brother, 6-time Grammy-nominated international recording artist Chief Adjuah (previously known as Christian Scott).

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