
Devan Scott
Directing
Known For

Province of Burgos, northern Spain, October 2015. A group of fans undertake the titanic task of restoring the location of the last scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the mythical spaghetti western directed by Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone in 1966.
Sad Hill Unearthed

After a woman is abandoned by her boyfriend in the forest, she befriends a couple and gradually realizes they are a pair of notorious bank robbers on the run from the law.
A Safe Distance

Three siblings are forced to band together when their mother informs them of her plan to adopt another child.
The Ask

A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.
Still Processing

When the world pandemic strikes, forty-something Teresa must overcome her fear of dying and decide if she wants to have a child conceived as a single mother through artificial insemination.
Teresa's Choice

A man obsessed with motivational and right wing culture war videos goes on a hollow road trip of discovery.
End of History

In 1981, a young girl spends a day at the fire station with her mother, the only female firefighter on the force, and witnesses what a typical day of work looks like, for better and for worse.
Smoke Eater

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected, politically uncertain modern world while on a trip to a remote Canadian island in this avant-garde feature film. PREFACE TO A HISTORY, created with a tiny crew of four people, represents an experiment in using minimalist tools to create an overwhelming aesthetic experience in service of a simple, but specifically contemporary, story about two people attempting to navigate a fraying relationship amid all the anxieties and external pressures of modern adulthood in a technologically-interconnected and politically unstable era.
Preface to a History

Calling her grandfather in Budapest to learn about the Hungarian film industry, a woman instead finds the conversation shifting to her family’s history.
Nine Behind

A film about the choices we make and the chances we take. From grief and abjection to bliss and communion, it takes us through one day in the lives of two gay men.
My Thoughts Exactly

A young woman investigates her neighbour and his wildly boring running route.
La Cartographe

In the near future, a teenage girl attends a virtual reality high school.
Hekademia

A young woman grapples with the declining health of her beloved dog in this film about mortality, cloning, and Barbra Streisand.
Norman Norman

An unexpected encounter during an afternoon at the cinema catapults a young woman into a confrontation with her own grief, her parents’ pain, and the still raw wound of her missing older brother.
It's Him

Grounds, Premises takes the opening scene of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space to consider intention and failure. What emerges is a treatise on the creative process with the emphasis on process rather than result. This film was made while teaching a film production course at a castle in the South of the Netherlands, and is dedicated to our fleeting time together.
Grounds, Premises

A portrait of 10 senior dogs and their owners who struggle with the thought of letting go.
In Dog Years

A portrait of a young woman providing companionship for juxtaposing demographics.
It's What Each Person Needs

When the Biblical Armageddon occurs, Cain Tibbons is sent to heaven, and his brother to hell; he must rescue his brother.
Paradiso

A man becomes engrossed in an audiobook while walking home on a summer night.
Preface to a History

A true-crime documentary crew interviews various people intimate to a shocking murder as the behind the scenes production unravels into the absurd.