Chinisha Scott

Chinisha Scott is an artist, independent filmmaker, and musician whose work is heavily entrenched in public activism and storytelling. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY College of Staten Island in Cinema and African-American Studies, cum laude. She is currently in progress for a Master of the Arts in Media Studies at The New School. Her experience in film has been expressed in both narrative and documentary form, working on a number of short films and at the Downtown Community Television Center for the past five years as the Program Coordinator and Teaching Artist of PRO-TV Youth Programs.

She has worked with DCTV on productions, notably the Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story educational tour as a camera operator. In addition, her undergraduate senior thesis project was a documentary film entitled 'What Are You?' which received recognition including consideration at the IFP independent filmmakers' market, semi-finalist at the Angelus Student Film Festival, and screening at the Staten Island Film Festival. For her narrative work, she has worked on and written a number of short narrative films, working in different capacities as a writer, director, producer, camera, A.D., editor, etc. All of her storytelling is driven by the desire to address communities at large, beginning at the level of the individual.