ABOUT THE PROJECT

LOGLINE
Over the course of one day, Sofia—a television location scout—hustles to find the right spaces for an upcoming shoot. In the process, she connects and interacts with a handful of strangers who let her into their homes.

SYNOPSIS
THE SCOUT is Paula Gonzalez-Nasser’s directorial debut. The film follows Sofia, a New York City based location scout over the course of one day, who is under pressure to find and lock down shooting locations for a TV pilot. As the show’s sole scout, she’s often alone during her workdays—exploring and documenting the streets, businesses, and residences of the city.

Throughout the day, she asks to enter the private space of a handful of the city’s residents and in doing so, steps into the fabric of their lives: a nostalgic elderly woman who lives alone, a well-off software developer and newly father with too much time on his hands, an old distanced college friend, and so on.

THE SCOUT unfolds as an anthology of these threaded meetings, depicting a woman struggling to find an equilibrium both in her relationships with people, her environing world, and herself. Though the nature of her work is fast-paced, the film is not a high-anxiety ride like that of a Safdie Brothers New York story. The lack of time and space is explored, paradoxically, through the language of a slower, more methodical cinema.

This extended state of transience isn’t filled with wall-to-wall action. It’s quiet, ordinary, quotidian—just another routine part of our daily lives. In some scenes, nothing happens except an experience of awareness, awareness of the world and of the self in transaction with the world.

The film is produced by Ryan Martin Brown and Matthew Romanski through 5th Floor Pictures.

PROJECT TYPE Narrative Feature

DIRECTOR Paula Andrea González-Nasser
SCREENWRITER Paula Andrea González-Nasser
PRODUCER Ryan Martin Brown, Matthew Romanski, Paula Andrea González-Nasser
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Jess Zeidman