The Scout
USA
DIRECTOR: Paula Andrea Gonzalez-Nasser
2025 / USA
(NAR) Sofia works as a location scout for a TV pilot shooting in New York City. The nature of her job is often high-pressured and unpredictable. She's often alone during her workday—exploring and documenting the streets, businesses, and residences of the city. The film takes place over a twenty-four-hour window in the lead-up of the show beginning its principal photography. Throughout the day, Sofia 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. These brief voyages into the lives of others are intimate yet transactional, enlightening but one-sided—a source of both potential connection and alienation for Sofia. Over the course of a day, she struggles to find her footing in this mess of contradictions and the endless momentum of her unusual job. “The Scout” explores a modern world caught in paradox, both connected and disconnected, together and alone.
RUNNING TIME—01:30:50
ARTIST’S BIO: Paula Andrea Gonzalez-Nasser is a Colombian filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the co-founder of 5th Floor where she produced Melina Valdez’s “Weapons And Their Names,” which premiered at Sundance 2023, and Ryan Martin Brown’s “Free Time,” which was picked up by Cartilage Films. She is a two-time Gotham Film Week participant and a Sundance Producers Intensive fellow. “The Scout” is her feature directorial debut.
2025 / USA
(NAR) Sofia works as a location scout for a TV pilot shooting in New York City. The nature of her job is often high-pressured and unpredictable. She's often alone during her workday—exploring and documenting the streets, businesses, and residences of the city. The film takes place over a twenty-four-hour window in the lead-up of the show beginning its principal photography. Throughout the day, Sofia 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. These brief voyages into the lives of others are intimate yet transactional, enlightening but one-sided—a source of both potential connection and alienation for Sofia. Over the course of a day, she struggles to find her footing in this mess of contradictions and the endless momentum of her unusual job. “The Scout” explores a modern world caught in paradox, both connected and disconnected, together and alone.
RUNNING TIME—01:30:50
ARTIST’S BIO: Paula Andrea Gonzalez-Nasser is a Colombian filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the co-founder of 5th Floor where she produced Melina Valdez’s “Weapons And Their Names,” which premiered at Sundance 2023, and Ryan Martin Brown’s “Free Time,” which was picked up by Cartilage Films. She is a two-time Gotham Film Week participant and a Sundance Producers Intensive fellow. “The Scout” is her feature directorial debut.
