[3] In 1965, she returned to Canada and began working as a public affairs producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television program Take 30, where she stayed for nearly a decade.
[6] Despite her interest in filmmaking, Scott explains that she originally believed that director work was solely for men and that directing positions were unattainable for women.
[6] In her interview with Sarah Kernochan Scott gives credit to her job as an assistant to a producer at the Manitoba Theatre Centre for showing her that women could also do this work.
[6] Scott claims that she gained the ability to produce films without experiencing gender discrimination by creating a name for herself after winning an Oscar award or her documentary Flamenco at 5:15.
[8] During her time with the National Film Board of Canada, Scott went on to participate in a women in the directors chair workshop [9] in Banff, Alberta.
In her Sarah Kernochan interview Scott describes this intensive workshop is an opportunity to educate and bring women directors together.
[6] In the late 1980s, Scott began developing a full-length docufiction film with the NFB featuring eight non-actresses, all but one of whom were senior citizens.
[11] In an interview with Sarah Kernochan Scott states that while she was working on her film The Company of Strangers her production team members were all women.
[6] Scott chose to have a strictly female team in order to place emphasis on the importance of women in the film industry supporting each other.
[15] Scott and her husband John N. Smith have spent a number of summers residing on currant lake in Dunany, Quebec.