Scott McPherson
Writing
Biography
Scott McPherson is an experienced story editor who has worked as a writer for series and feature films. He has worked in drama and comedy for adults and children. He has also acted as the Vice President and Executive Director of the Television and Film Institute, and been a senior script analyst and eventually a senior development and production executive for a major Canadian broadcaster. During his time at the network McPherson shepherded a variety of very successful projects including the series Incredible Story Studio (1997) and the films, The Secret Life of Algernon (1998) and The Dinosaur Hunter (2000) Scott left the network to get back to writing, starting as story editor for Season II of Mentors, the same year the series won its only writing Gemini. After living for a period in Europe, Scott returned to Canada and several years of teaching and story editing. 2007 saw him take on a new screenplay as well as become co-producer of the sketch comedy series "Caution: May Contain Nuts." That project brought Scott into contact with Chester Sit and the two bonded over their approach to business. Forming a company with Paul Bellows of Yellow Pencil, they are now in development on several film and television projects. Their first feature film, The Pharmacist, is due for release in fall of 2009. Scott McPherson produced, story edited and acted in the film. In addition to his own projects, McPherson is also proud to have been the inspiration behind Adrian Lackey's film, The Trial of Stubby McPherson (1998).
Known For
Life in Crocus as seen through the eyes of a young lad, Ben, and his friend Jake. Jake and the Kid is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on the CanWest Global system of stations in the 1990s. The second (1995) television adaptation of W. O. Mitchell's 1961 short story collection Jake and the Kid the series is set in the small town of Crocus, Saskatchewan, and centres on the friendship between Ben "the Kid" Osborne (Ben Campbell), a young boy growing up on a farm with his widowed mother Julia (Patricia Harras), and Jake Trumper (Shaun Johnston), a farmhand who becomes Ben's surrogate father figure.
Jake and The Kid
An attorney takes the lawyer/client relationship too seriously. She ends up falling for her client, a very charming photographer who has been charged with a multiple murder. She wants to believe he is innocent but she cannot deny her suspicions.
Portraits of a Killer
A drug-dealing pharmacist quits dealing when he falls in love with a recovering addict. But when a psychotic killer informs the pharmacist that they are now business partners, quitting is no longer an option.