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Director's Reel
writer. director. producer. editor
Recent Productions
The Last Summer
Writer | Producer
(2024)
"After things go wrong during a family fishing outing, two siblings experience an intriguing summer which reshapes their relationship, and lives."
Columbia University
Film MFA Producing Thesis Film
2024 Leone Family Film Award Winner
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Oh Happy Day!
Lead Producer
(2025)
World Premiere:
2025 deadCenter Film Festival
"In an attempt to impress his crush, a shy boy must break out of his shell to deliver an UNFORGETTABLE Easter speech."
We Are Here To Help
Lead Producer
(2024)
"Eric & Armell stop at a carry-out for some wings and mumbo sauce. They walk home, exchanging stories from their recent exploits. While walking, they pass an MPD squad car with its driver door open..."
Directed by Nile Price
"Always Enough" for
Nappy Head Club
Apparel Brand Commercial
Lead Producer
(2023)
Shot on 35mm film.
Directed by Naa Adei Mante
Love Bites
Writer | Director
(2024)
"During a fateful day at the park, Laila meets the love of her life...?"
Down's Paradox
Lead Producer
(2023)
Official Selection: New York Short Film Festival, Harlem International Film Festival, Manhattan Film Festival
"Down's Paradox" follows a teenage boy who falls victim to the negative influences of his friends and the neighborhood he grew up in.
Election Night at Carter College
Writer | Director | Producer
(2022)
Columbia University Film MFA
First Year "3-5" Minute Film
BIO
LEAH SIMONE SCOTT is a writer, director, and producer from Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. She graduated summa cum laude from Howard University and earned her MFA in Film with a concentration in Creative Producing from Columbia University, where she was a Lenfest Fellow. Since, Leah has held numerous media internships and externships with organizations including National Geographic Partners and United Talent Agency.
Most recently, she created content for the Democratic National Committee as a Rapid Response Video Editor for @KamalaHQ during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.
Leah has written and directed two short films and produced fourteen. Additionally, she has written a total of four feature film screenplays and five pilot scripts.
Her short film Love Bites (writer/director) premiered at the Newark International Film Festival, while Down’s Paradox (producer) won the Audience Award at the New York Short Film Festival. Her thesis film, The Last Summer (writer/producer) earned a Columbia University Leone Family Production Grant and premiered at the 2024 New Orleans Film Festival. It has received multiple accolades, including Best Short Film and 2nd Place Grand Prize at the HBCU First Look Festival and the Audience Award at the Columbia University Film Festival.