Christopher J. Scott has served as a managing member, writer, producer, and director with Domicile Films, LLC, in New York City for more than four years. In this position, Christopher J. Scott has worked on a variety of projects, including episodic series and feature films such as Cabin Fever.Cabin Fever is a 2016 horror film written by horror aficionado Eli Roth and Randy Pearlstein and directed by Travis Zariwny, who previously contributed camera and electrical work to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Since a limited theatrical run that included international distribution in the United Kingdom, Cabin Fever has attracted an audience through DVD, Blu-ray, and other home market sales. Critics have pointed out the film’s indebtedness to familiar genre tropes, notably a group of young people isolated in a remote location, but also the movie’s willingness to branch into comedy while at the same time experimenting with innovative, macabre elements of horror.
Christopher J. Scott guides Domicile Films, LLC, as managing member and has overseen the writing and direction of series and feature-length films. One of Christopher J. Scott’s most noteworthy productions is Forgiving Kevin, which was completed in 2016 and has a script taken from author Larry Glenz’ book of the same name. The movie takes an honest look at the violence, lies, and betrayal experienced when a father finds his son caught in the trap of heroin addiction. Thus begins a seven-year ordeal in which Larry tries everything he knows to save a son with whom he has shared a close relationship, including a mentoring role as coach on the high school lacrosse team. Ultimately, the father finds a spiritual meaning in his unsuccessful efforts to rehabilitate his son. After a series of recovery and relapse cycles, he learns to forgive and obtains a form of absolution with the birth of his son’s baby, just four months before he passes on. To this day, Larry engages as motivational speaker in the addiction recovery sphere and emphasizes the importance of spiritual psychotherapy in community outreach efforts.
Film writer, producer, and director Christopher J. Scott serves as a managing member of Domicile Films, an independent film and television production company in New York with more than five decades of filmmaking experience among its owners. Christopher J. Scott also belongs to the Director’s Guild of America (DGA), which works closely with the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA), East to support diversity legislation in New York.Most recently, the DGA and the WGA, East lent their support for the introduction of a bill designed to facilitate diverse hiring and address the industry’s broken pipeline. The diversity bill affects the $420 million Empire State Film Production Tax Credit, which rewarded companies for producing film projects in New York and contributed toward sustaining jobs in the film industry. The first of its kind, the bipartisan bill modifies the Film Production Tax Credit to include the distribution of $5 million for television productions that hire women and people of color as writers and directors. Distributed amounts are capped at $50,000 per hire.
Christopher J. Scott has worked for more than two decades building a successful career as a film writer, director, and producer. As managing member of Domicile Films, LLC, Christopher J. Scott wrote and directed Hood Pranks the Movie.Based off of the famous Hood Pranks Web series, Hood Pranks the Movie is a hidden-camera-style comedy piece that follows a series of unsuspecting individuals who endure various pranks. During one of these jokes, a man is making a purchase when the cashier suddenly tells him that it is a “no change day” and that he will not receive change on his $20 bill. In another, a woman wins a sweepstakes prize of $50,000 but the presenter informs her that they were supposed to award it to another woman with a similar name. Hood Pranks the Movie will see the return of show creator Fambino and his original cast of expert pranksters. Joining the cast list will be actor Jaime Santana and hip-hop performer Maino.
