SCOTT A. SELL

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

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Scott Sell has over a decade of experience as a journalist and is committed to visual storytelling as a way to engage, inform, and inspire. He is primarily interested in documentary video and audio, 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 Sell has worked as a reporter, a creative writing and multimedia instructor, the in-house filmmaker at the Island Institute, and a producer at Compass Light Productions and the Points North Institute.

He plays and records music when he has the time and is the host of Random Rules, a radio show on WRFR 93.3 FM. More than anything, he loves Otis Redding, trains, and New Haven pizza.

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

DOCUMENTARY AND PROGRAMMATIC PROJECTS

An immersive auditory escape to the coasts, forests, and islands of the Pine Tree State. 
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Director of photography, sound recordist, and writer SCOTT SELL
Produced for ATLAS OBSCURA in partnership with the MAINE OFFICE OF TOURISM
2023

FAN MAIL

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.

A film by SCOTT SELL
In conjunction with MAINE STREET USA
2021

CAN ART EASE THE FLOODING OF VENICE?

For the last five years, the artist Andreco has created a series of sculptural installations and murals throughout the cities of Europe. Paris, Bari, and Bologna all feature his work.  Every piece is place-informed - showcasing the specific vulnerabilities of each location to a changing climate. In Venice, where high winds in October of 2019 put three-quarters of the city underwater, Andreco gathers information for his geometric sculptures and graph-like murals, information that he has gathered in his other profession as an environmental engineer. Andreco notes that formulae predict Venice will be underwater in 100 years. Could the consequence of his art suggest an alternate future?

A film by ALEXIS IAMMARINO & SCOTT SELL
Editors LUCY GREEN & SCOTT SELL
Executive producer DAVID CONOVER
From the REELEARTH collection 
2019

A CLIMATE OF CHANGE: THE FUTURE OF AQUACULTURE

A Climate of Change is an Island Institute-produced video series about climate change effects on our nation's fisheries.

After traveling to Alaska to explore ocean acidification and to Apalachicola, Florida where one of the most valuable oyster fisheries in the country is on the verge of collapse, we return to Maine to focus on a positive future for the state's fishing communities through aquaculture and how more and more resource harvesters are seeing farmed shellfish and sea vegetables as a vital way to stay on the water.

Director of photography and editor SCOTT SELL
Produced for ISLAND INSTITUTE
2016

WORDS

NEWS CLIPS, ESSAYS, AND SHORT FICTION

CLIENTS & COLLABORATORS