Scott Burkhardt

BIOGRAPHIE

Scott Burkhardt is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts where he received an MFA in Film. Scott's thesis film, The Assastant, won the New Line Cinema Development Award and went on to win the 20th Century Fox/Farrelly Brothers Outstanding Achievement in Comedy Award and the Student Choice Award for Best Writing. The film was also nominated for a Student Academy Award and played festivals around the world. The film was distributed by Cinetic Media as part of their FilmBuff series on Hulu.com. Scott has written for television (NBC’s SMASH) and developed projects for NBC Universal, CBS Studios and MXN Entertainment. He is currently submitting his award winning short film, GIRLS ARE STRONG HERE, to festivals. The script won multiple short screenplay awards. He most recently directed several episodes of PAPER YEAR, a new web series that premiered on Instagram in Summer 2019. Scott teaches screenwriting and television writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, the University of Pennsylvania and in the Killer Films/Stony Brook MFA Film Program.

FILMOGRAPHIE