Garrett Scott
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Garrett Scott: A Legacy of Generosity at Full Frame Documentary Festival
In 2006, documentary filmmaker Garrett Scott died unexpectedly, shocking the film community. His film, Occupation: Dreamland, co-directed with Ian Olds, won the Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award two days after his death. In the aftermath of this tragedy, his friends and collaborators founded the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant. The idea of the grant is to support first-time feature documentary makers by emulating a formative experience Garrett and Ian had when making Occupation: Dreamland. He visited Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina, where he met with many people from the doc community. Full Frame is a […]
by Jason Osder on May 10, 2018 -
GARRETT SCOTT MEMORIAL
The Flaherty/International Film Seminars sent out an email announcing an informal memorial for Garrett Scott, whose 2002 film Cul de Sac premiered at the 2002 Flaherty Seminar, this Saturday in New York. From their email: “The New York Underground Film Festival will honor him at an informal event from 12pm to 2pm this Saturday, March 11th at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. at 2nd Street, in the Maya Deren (downstairs) theater. All are invited. A more formal memorial will be held in the coming weeks. We mourn the loss of such a talented artist and warm person.”
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 8, 2006 -
Garrett Scott
I just arrived here in L.A. for the Spirit Awards and was stunned to hear that filmmaker Garrett Scott died yesterday. He was a great documentarian, a thoughtful colleague here in the NYC indie world, and a friend, and this is really an incredible loss. Scott was at the beginning of his career but on the basis of his two docs — Cul de Sac and Occupation: Dreamland, co-directed with Ian Olds — his was a great talent. He was able to synthesize an astutely critical take on contemporary society and politics with a real empathy for his subjects. Watch […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 3, 2006 -
FACT-FINDING MISSION
Perhaps my favorite doc this year is Garrett Scott and Ian Olds’ Occupation Dreamland, which opened this weekend at the Cinema Village in New York along with screens in Portland, Boson, D.C., and Berkeley. It’s an essential piece of filmmaking for anyone wanting to learn more about the war in Iraq and its aftermath. Scott, who was one of our “25 New Faces” back in 2002, and Olds previously collaborated on Scott’s incredible short doc Cul de Sac. That earlier film used the story of one man’s mental breakdown (the tale of a San Diego man who stole a tank […]
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 25, 2005 -
GET OUT OF THE VECTOR!
From an email from filmmaker Garrett Scott, who premiered his smart, sometimes surreal but always penetrating doc on a U.S. Army unit deployed in Fallujah, Occupation: Dreamland (pictured) in Rotterdam, where I got snagged in my hotel room with the Sundance flu for a couple of days: “It is widely believed that the deadly global Influenza epidemic of 1918 spread across the U.S. so rapidly because of mass troop mobilization for the First World War. No one realized what sort of by product would arise from moving all those bodies into closely compressed camps. Then, move them by train to […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 8, 2005
