THE SCOUT

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Over the course of one day, a location scout connects with a handful of New York City residents as she struggles to lock down shooting locations for a TV show.

Sofia works as a location scout for a TV show pilot shooting in New York City. In the 24-hour window in the lead-up of the show beginning its principal photography, Sofia is under pressure to find and lock down shooting locations. Over the course of a day, she struggles to find her footing in a mess of contradictions and the endless momentum of her unusual job. As the show’s sole scout, she’s often alone during her workdays—exploring and documenting the streets, businesses, and residences of the city. Throughout the day, she asks to enter the private space of a handful of the city’s residents and in doing so, steps into the fabric of their lives: a nostalgic elderly woman who lives alone, a well-off software developer and new father with too much time on his hands, an old distanced college friend, and so on. THE SCOUT unfolds as an anthology of these threaded meetings, depicting a woman struggling to find an equilibrium both in her relationships with people, her environing world, and herself.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Tribeca 2025
WoodsHole Film Festival 2025
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival 2025
NewNext 2025
Mill Valley Film Festival 2025
Bend Film Festival 2025
Vancouver International Film Festival 2025
New Hampshire Film Festival 2025

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Paula Andrea González-Nasser (she/her) is a Colombian filmmaker currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. In 2016, she and Ryan Martin Brown co-founded 5th Floor as a film collective after graduating together from the film program at Florida State University. Paula's feature directorial debut, THE SCOUT, had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. In 2025, Paula was named one of 25 new faces in independent film by Filmmaker Magazine. She has also produced films like Melina Valdez’s WEAPONS AND THEIR NAMES, which premiered at Sundance 2023, and Ryan Martin Brown’s FREE TIME (CUFF 2023 Selection), which received three nominations at the inaugural Slamdance Indie Awards. She is a two-time Gotham Film Week participant and a 2023 Sundance Producers Intensive Fellow. Previously, Paula worked as a location scout on many New York films and TV shows such as HIGH MAINTENANCE, RUSSIAN DOLL, SEARCH PARTY, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS, and more.