Shaun Scott Wiki Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

Scott was a field organizer for US Representative Pramila Jayapal. Scott helped unionize Jayapal’s 2018 campaign staff through the Campaign Worker’s Guild.

In November 2018, Scott announced his bid for Seattle City Council District 4 to replace interim council member Abel Pacheco. Scott received enough votes in the 2019 Washington primary election to advance to the general election in November 2019. Scott has received endorsements from alternative weekly The Stranger and local chapters of the Sierra Club and Our Revolution.

In September 2015, Thought Catalog Books published Scott’s short-form essay “Something Better: Millennials and Late Capitalism at the Movies” on iTunes and Amazon. In 2018, Zero Books published Scott’s book-length history of the Millennial generation titled “Millennials and the Moments that Made Us: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982-present.”

Scott began a career as a writer in late 2014, contributing pieces about American politics and race relations to The Monarch Review and The Seattle Weekly. In July 2015, Scott was hired by City Arts Magazine as a columnist, where he runs an ongoing thread called “Faded Signs” about popular culture under late capitalism.

Scott’s first narrative feature was “100% OFF: A Recession-Era Romance” (2012), a docudrama about a kleptomaniac and the immigrant wife with whom he enters a marriage of convenience. It was followed in 2014 by “Pacific Aggression”, a straightforward narrative about a social media addict and the blogger she stalks. In 2014, Scott announced plans to direct the (as yet uncompleted) feature film “Their Eyes Were Watching The Light,” a period piece about a hostage situation set in 1932.

Scott is a Seattle-based independent filmmaker whose first feature film was “Seat of Empire” (2009), a 3-hour long documentary tour of the city of Seattle using archival footage. In 2010 he directed and wrote “Waste of Time”, a historical mash-up of original footage, archival images, and contemporary music meant as a portrait of consumer capitalism.

Shaun Scott (born November 8, 1984): American filmmaker, film director, film editor, writer, historian, activist, and former candidate for Seattle City Council.

Scott is a member of the 43rd LD Democrats and the Seattle chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.