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Director's Reel
writer. director. producer. editor.
based in NYC.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS
The Last Summer
(2024)
Writer | Producer
After things go wrong during a family fishing outing, two siblings experience an intriguing summer which reshapes their relationship, and lives.
Official Selection: New Orleans Film Festival, New York Shorts International Film Festival, St. Auggie Shorts Film Festival, HBCU First Look Film Festival, Columbia University Film Festival
Awards: Leone Family Film Award Winner, HBCUFLFF Best Short Film & 2nd Place Grand Prize, CUFF Audience Award
Oh Happy Day!
(2025)
Lead Producer
In an attempt to impress his crush, a shy boy must break out of his shell to deliver an UNFORGETTABLE Easter speech.
World Premiere: 2025 deadCenter Film Festival
We Are Here To Help
(2024)
Lead Producer
Eric & Armell stop at a carry-out for some wings and mumbo sauce. They walk home, exchanging stories from their recent exploits. While walking, they pass an MPD squad car with its driver door open...
Always Enough Nappy Head Club
Lead Producer
Apparel brand commercial.
Shot on 35mm film.
Love Bites
(2024)
Writer | Director
During a fateful day at the park, Laila meets the love of her life...?
Official Selection: Newark International Film Festival
Down's Paradox
(2023)
Lead Producer
Down's Paradox" follows a teenage boy who falls victim to the negative influences of his friends and the neighborhood he grew up in.
Official Selection: New York Short Film Festival; Audience Award Winner, Harlem International Film Festival, Manhattan Film Festival
Election Night at Carter College
Writer | Director | Producer
(2022)
Columbia University Film MFA
First Year "3-5" Minute Film
BIO
Leah Simone Scott is a NYC-based, Black American filmmaker from Ponte Vedra Beach, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida. She graduated summa cum laude from Howard University and earned her MFA in Film with a concentration in Creative Producing from Columbia University, where she was a Lenfest Fellow.
Leah has held numerous entertainment internships and externships with organizations including National Geographic Partners, United Talent Agency, and Cortés Filmworks helmed by Emmy Winning Producer and Director Lisa Cortés. During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, she created content for the Democratic National Committee as a Rapid Response Video Editor for @KamalaHQ across social media platforms.
In total, Leah has written and directed two short films and produced fourteen. Additionally, she has written a total of four feature film screenplays and five pilot scripts.
Her short film Love Bites (writer/director) premiered at the Newark International Film Festival in 2023 while her thesis film, The Last Summer (writer/producer) directed by Patrick Wei earned a Columbia University Leone Family Production Grant and premiered at the 2024 Oscar-Qualifying New Orleans Film Festival. It has since received multiple accolades, including Best Short Film and 2nd Place Grand Prize at the HBCU First Look Festival and the Audience Award at the Columbia University Film Festival. Most recently, her film Oh Happy Day! (producer) directed by Ivan Rome premiered at the 2025 deadCenter Film Festival.
With her work, Leah aims to craft diverse and unique narratives that resonate universally by fostering empathy and understanding around complex societal issues and interpersonal dynamics.