SCOTT A. SELL

INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY & COMMERCIAL PRODUCER, EDITOR, ​WRITER, AND EDUCATOR 
OPERATING OUT OF THE GREAT STATE OF MAINE

With over 20 years of experience as a journalist and filmmaker, Scott is committed to audio and visual storytelling as a way to engage, inform, and inspire. He is primarily interested in documentary production, but is available to produce promotional, educational, and instructional projects as well. 

A graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Scott has worked as a reporter, a creative writing and multimedia instructor, and a producer for Education Week, Island Institute, Compass Light Productions, Points North Institute, and Altimeter Design Group.

Together with his wife, the artist Alexis Iammarino, he runs Little Legs Projects, a creative company focused on murals, art education, and documentary storytelling.

He plays and records music when he has the time and is the host of Random Rules on WRFR, Rockland’s community radio station. One time, he got on stage at Radio City Music Hall and danced with the Rockettes.

LET’S WORK TOGETHER

​If you're interested in having your story told thoughtfully and beautifully, contact me for more information about rates and availability.

The Whole Shebang

A complete film production, from brainstorm to delivery.

Contractor for Hire

Add me to your crew as a producer, videographer, or editor.

Bits + Bobs

One-off writing, audio, or still photography project.

PICTURE + SOUND

A selection of past multimedia work, which includes documentary, programmatic, and branded projects.


This Is How Maine Sounds | Atlas Obscura
x Maine Tourism
Director of photography & sound recordist | interactive project | 2023

An immersive auditory escape to the coasts, forests, and islands of Maine.

2025 Webby Award (People's Voice Winner, Best Multimedia Storytelling)
2025 Digiday Finalist for Best Interactive Content Piece


Can Art Ease the Flooding of Venice? |
Compass Light Productions
Co-director & editor | 20 min. film | 2019

Short documentary about the artist Andreco, who creates art, murals, and installations focused on ecology, climate change, and environmental justice. Produced for Compass Light Productions as part of the ReelEarth Collection.


International Safeguards | Altimeter Design Group
Video producer & sound designer | multimedia installation | 2022


Experiential production for the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 2022 Symposium on International Safeguards in Vienna, Austria.


Maine Forests Forever | America’s Forests
with Chuck Leavell
Editor | PBS series | 2024

Celebrated rock pianist and conservationist Chuck Leavell is our on-camera guide traveling across the country to interview people who are passionate about the gifts we get from our woods.


Tasting Notes | Tandem Coffee Roasters
DP & editor | music videos | 2025


Ongoing series of live performances of local and touring musicians, filmed at Tandem’s roastery in Portland, Maine.


A Climate of Change | Island Institute
DP and editor |

film series | 2013 - 2015

For over a decade, the Climate of Change film series has spotlighted solutions to the most pressing challenges facing Maine’s coast—from sea level rise and clean energy to ocean acidification and warming waters.


Nancy Hemenway Barton: Confluence of Nature Denver Art Museum
DP, editor & sound designer | video

installation | 2025

Accompanying artist Nancy Hemenway Barton’s exhibition of large textile work, these videos aim to transport a landlocked museum to the Maine coast and provide a glimpse into her primary inspiration: the rocks and water.

Fan Mail | Maine Street USA
Director and producer | 5 min. film | 2021


Maine assemblage artist Margaret Rizzio creates wonderfully weird mail art for friends and strangers, finding connection, coincidence, and the capacity for magic in sending delight out into the world.

WORDS

NEWS CLIPS, ESSAYS, AND SHORT FICTION

NEWS CLIPS

FROM ISLAND JOURNAL
The Sound of Island Silence 2018
Smiles, Hugs, and Hospitality: Anna Fernald is Islesford's Warm Heart 2017
One Deer, Two Islands 2016
Making Salt Hay While the Sun Shines 2015
My Garden in Your Backyard 2013
Daud Akhriev 2009
Only So Many Hours 2007

FROM ISLANDPORT MAGAZINE
Face Time: Painter Connie Hayes quietly draws the Rockland community Spring 2019
Dick Curless: The Baron Summer 2018
Brandon Berry: The Underdog Spring 2018
John McDonald: Dean of Maine Humor Fall 2017
Erica Brown: Bluegrass Darlin' Summer 2017

FROM BALTIMORE BREW
Strategy for success at Baltimore’s mostly-Latino Wolfe Street Academy Oct. 18, 2010

FROM THE WASHINGTON POST
Most seniors adapt to loss of a partner Aug. 10, 2010

FROM THE QUEENS CHRONICLE
Guyanese in Queens diversify Mormon church Jan. 7, 2010

FROM THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Storied boxing institution Gleason's Gym staggered by bad economy Jan. 5, 2010

FICTION

"Saturday" BOMB. Issue 89. Fall 2004. Winner of BOMB's 2004 Fiction Prize, judged by A.M. Homes. 
"Planes Mistaken for Stars" Vacations: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly. Outrider Press Anthology. 2006.  

CLIENTS & COLLABORATORS