Film Followed by Q&A on Sun. 10/11 – with director Paula Gonzalez-Nasser, moderated by Xander Robin.
Sofia works as a location scout for a TV pilot filming in New York City. It’s her job to find the homes, businesses, and exteriors where the show will be filmed. Driving around the city's different neighborhoods, she enters the private spaces of strangers to photograph their cozy apartments and eclectic shops, stepping into the fabric of their lives while trying to satisfy the demands of her erratic employers. Over a day filled with these encounters, Sofia witnesses moments of curiosity, vulnerability, and quiet tension until her work takes a sudden, personal turn.
Drawing from her own experience as a location scout, writer-director Paula González-Nasser captures the poetry and costs of being a young creative. Her celebrated directorial debut The Scout crafts a contemplative exploration of urban disconnection, following one woman's journey through other people's worlds as she struggles to find her own.
About Paula Gonzalez-Nasser
Writer, Director, Producer Paula 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, 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.
About Xander Robin
Xander Robin is a filmmaker based in South Florida who most recently directed the feature documentary The Python Hunt, produced by Artists Equity and Lance Oppenheim. The film premiered at SXSW 2025, where it received a Special Jury Award, and was released in theaters in 2026 by Oscilloscope Laboratories. He previously directed three episodes of the HBO original series Chillin Island for the Safdie brothers' Elara Pictures, and wrote and directed his feature debut, Are We Not Cats, which premiered in Critics' Week at the 73rd Venice Film Festival.
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