Stella Scott

Stella Scott lives and works in London. She studied at Chelsea School of Art and Central Saint Martins and began making films during her years as a youth worker at Kids Company. Her first film for Dazed Digital, Street Angel—which documented the inner world of an angel-card reader—won a Vimeo Staff Pick. Her follow-up, Reverie—capturing the dreams and aspirations of 50 young people—premiered at Aesthetica and the London Short Film Festival.

Growing up in South London, she remembers an early desire to document the extraordinary in the everyday. Her practice is rooted in personal experience and in documentation through research, photography, and interview. She likes to work across fiction and documentary to tell naturalistic, psychologically-driven stories. Her work often explores the female perspective, the outsider artist, and the natural world.

Most recently, Cedar Milk (2023) looks at the female experience within an eco-religious sect spreading from Siberia throughout the world. Gerry’s Pompeii (2022) follows a collective effort to save an art installation discovered in a West London social housing flat. Lynn and Linda (2022) examines our relationship with British rituals and traditions through the reenactment of May Dew, now on the cusp of living memory.

In 2019, she was selected for the iFeatures development scheme. Her short film Bulldozer (2021) for BBC Film was chosen as part of the BBC and BFI British Film Premiere, and Virtuoso (2023) premiered at FrightFest Film Festival. Her films have also screened at British Shorts Berlin, Central Scotland Documentary Festival, Bolton Film Festival, Underwire Film Festival, Fashion Film Festival Milano, Art Night London, Pervilion, and Holy Art, and premiered on Nowness, 4:3, and Girls in Film. Her music video for Olivia Dean was shortlisted for best music video at UKMVA 2020. She’s currently developing her feature debut.