Duncan Scott has worked continuously in film, video and theater
since the age of 19. He has received four Emmy Awards for television production and direction.
Duncan majored in theater arts for three years at the famed
School of Performing Arts in New York City. His first professional work was as an actor and stage hand in summer stock
productions of Fanny with Anna Maria Alberghetti, and Showboat with Howard Keel.
Soon after, he began his motion picture career, spending seven
years in New York City as a film editor on features, commercials, documentaries and film trailers. He was accepted into
the Directors Guild of America Training Program and, as an assistant director, worked alongside Woody Allen, Sidney Lumet,
and Richard Brooks on major studio films such as Zelig, Nighthawks, A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy and
Deathtrap. Part of his responsibilities included coordinating the on-set activities of actors including stars such
as Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Mia Farrow, and Dennis Quaid.
After several years as an assistant director, Duncan
launched his directing career. Since then he has directed over 140 projects for film, television and theater.
His credits include award-winning dramatic short subjects, public service commercials, documentaries, and music videos.
Duncan helped to create the acclaimed PBS series, Innovation, for which he produced and directed 28 half-hour programs.
He directed public service announcements featuring celebrities such as Eric Clapton and Ann Jillian. His regional theater
directing credits include major productions of A Man For All Seasons and Wait Until Dark. Duncan’s
award-winning series of PSAs promoting the Emergency Medical Services have been airing nationally for over eight years. Each
of the spots was filmed in a different movie genre style. Duncan
recently won an Emmy for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for his science fiction style spot.
Through his production company, Duncan now develops feature
films and television projects. Several of these projects are adaptations of novels by Ayn Rand, the author of The
Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Duncan worked with Rand to adapt and re-edit the film version of her
book, We the Living. This feature film classic, starring Rossano Brazzi and Alida Valli has received worldwide acclaim.
Duncan’s company now owns and distributes the movie. Duncan also wrote a full length stage play based on Ayn Rand’s
novel, Anthem, the story of a man and woman struggling against a completely collectivized dystopia. A 2008 premiere
is planned for the play. He consulted with author Barbara Branden on the film version of The Passion of Ayn Rand.
The Showtime movie dramatizing the life of Ayn Rand starred Helen Mirren and Eric Stolz. He conceived and developed The Objectivist
History Project, which is an on-going series of video interviews with the leaders and key thinkers that Rand inspired during
her lifetime.
Among the company’s other feature film projects
under development is Gen. Thompson, the dramatic true story of a young black slave who, during the Civil War, escapes
the South and, overcoming unthinkable challenges, becomes America’s first black army general. The company’s first
original film production is the contemporary thriller, Last Words, expected to begin pre-production in 2007. Following
that is Granite, a period mystery set in Nova Scotia for which the screenplay was recently completed.
Training
School of Performing
Arts, New York
Kenley Players (Summer
Stock), Ohio
Directors Guild of
America Training Program, New
York
Directors Guild of
America - Directors Workshop, New
York
Theater Arts Major,
Santa Monica College, CA
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences -
Directors Workshop, CA
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