James Scott (director)

[2] His interest in film-making and photography led him to write and direct his first movie while still at the Slade, a 16mm dramatic short called The Rocking Horse (1962).

[5] In 1964, Scott wrote and produced the short dramatic film Changes which featured the young Anthony Hopkins fresh from acting school (RADA).

[9] In 1974, he began a new film on Antoni Tapies (incomplete)[10] In 1979–1980, he wrote and directed the award-winning documentary Chance, History, Art… for the Arts Council of Great Britain.

[13] During this period, Scott was a founder member of the Independent Filmmakers Association, London (IFA)[14] and joined the board of The Other Cinema.

Nightcleaners was originally conceived of as a film documenting attempts to unionize women working at night as contract cleaners in office buildings.

In 1988, Scott wrote and directed and Christine Oestreicher produced the feature film Loser Takes All, also known as Strike It Rich, based on a novel by Graham Greene.

In 2013, James and his brother Robert organized their father William Scott’s Centenary exhibitions at such institutions as the Tate St. Ives, Wakefield and the Ulster Museum in Belfast.

The Great Ice Cream Robbery was shown in 2013 at the BFI Southbank Theatre in London as part of their Expanded Cinema program[22] as well as at Light Industry in NYC.

[28] Nightcleaners was presented this past April at the BFI Southbank Theatre as part of a series on seventies cutting edge political films[29] and was included in the Okwui Enwezor-curated All the World’s Futures show at this year’s Venice Biennale.