Bio
Scott Sheppard is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He is a director, editor and producer of documentaries, commercials, shorts, and digital content. His films have shown on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, PBS, Amazon Prime, Showtime, and at film festivals around the globe. His work has been covered by The LA Times, The Today Show, People Magazine, Huffington Post, The Wrap, San Francisco Chronicle, The Advocate, and more.
His documentary An Act of Love won numerous awards on the film festival circuit and played over 175 times at festivals, community screenings, churches, and theaters around the world. It was released by Hulu and Virgil Films.
Scott co-directed, shot, and edited The Dancing Man of L.A., a short documentary about the world’s biggest concert enthusiast and how the COVID-19 pandemic changed his life. It was released on Independent Lens and PBS Voices. It won three Telly Awards for directing, editing, and best documentary.
His directorial debut was the documentary, Planes, Trains & Autorickshaws. Shot in South India as a one-man crew, this personal travel film chronicles his family's history of missionary work in the 20th century. It premiered on Hulu and then moved to Amazon Prime.
He edited and co-produced the documentary Magnolia’s Hope, about a family struggling with Rett Syndrome. He edited the true crime docuseries I Just Killed My Dad for Netflix, Call Me Miss Cleo for HBO Max, No Ordinary Campaign, and an upcoming true-crime docuseries for Discovery+. He was an additional editor on American Dream/American Knightmare for Showtime, 2020 Chaos and Hope for Peacock, and Erasing Family. He has edited shortform and commercial projects for organizations such as American Heart Association, Harvard, Canon, Bank of America, Open Society Foundations, Ad Council, SoFi, Elvis Presley Enterprises, and many more.
Originally from Michigan, he holds a B.S. in Film & Video Production from Grand Valley State University.
