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. Scott's films are ultimately about the consequences of not caring for others. His filmic works include collaborations with, among others, Academy Award-winning writer-director and producer Spike Lee; Tony Award nominated and Peabody and Academy Award-winning screenwriter, playwright and producer Tarell Alvin McCraney, Peabody Award-winning screenwriter and showrunner Dee Harris-Lawrence, and Emmy nominated and NAACP Image Award-winning producer Jesse Collins. Most recently Scott directed five episodes of the second season of OWN's critically acclaimed series David Makes Man. In 2019 Scott also directed three episodes of the series' Peabody Award-winning first season. In 2018 Scott directed BET's hit miniseries The Bobby Brown Story, which won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Television Movie, Limited Series or Dramatic Special. The biopic 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's featurette Samaria won a Directors Guild of America Student Film Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, the Audience Award at the Urbanworld Film Festival, and was a finalist in the Student Academy Awards. Scott's previous short film, The Roe Effect, won several major film festivals, among them: 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 2010 Short Film Corner. Of the film, Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme remarked, "Exquisitely made, fantastic in every single aspect, the themes are profound. Scott is an incredibly exciting new American filmmaker. Bravo!" Scott is an alumnus of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, one of the most selective universities in the United States. Every student awarded admission into The Cooper Union receives a full tuition scholarship. Scott is also a graduate of New York University's Graduate Film Program where he was awarded a full tuition Dean's Fellowship, was a Spike Lee Fellow, and served as Professor Spike Lee's Graduate Teaching Assistant. After completing his academic coursework, Scott served as Spike Lee's assistant on his professional projects, which ranged from theatrical features and documentaries to commercials and Broadways plays. Scott collaborated with Lee as a co-writer on Lee's computer animated feature length video game film NBA 2K16's Livin' Da Dream. Additionally, Scott is an alumnus of Ryan Murphy's HALF Foundation television directing mentorship program. And his feature length screenplay Epilogue was an inaugural selection of the New Orleans Film Festival's A.M.P.A.S. Emerging Voices Program. Scott is currently developing several projects. Among them, a dramatic fiction anthology series exploring the American actuality and the consequences of othering, an Afro-futurism fantasy mythology and transmedia project, and an experimental film / album in collaboration with his 6 time Grammy-nominated identical twin brother, international recording artist Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (also known as Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah).