about scott
“Scott Kinnamon is the best kind of creative intellectual: funny, brilliant, and engaging at every turn. A true visionary with a gift for communication that puts his audience at ease.
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Film Education, Art, and SKEW Media Filmmaking,
Scott Kinnamon moves fluidly between filmmaking, education and art with the purpose of exploring how story is central to human existence. By using film, he provokes teens and other participants to move beyond consumption of images to rendering a depiction of their own experience whether in a fictionalized format or autobiographical. He combines the thrill of mastering new techniques with the ability to work with students to tell an original story that often becomes a central way of communicating with others.
Central to this process is collaboration – moving through working with a team to produce a film which involves decisions regarding composition, direction, vision, narrative arc and personal voice. It also requires understanding how to find authenticity, which often means wandering into the deep end. This process of working with students on film demands of students that they think about how the world is comprised – and as students become filmmakers, it builds recognition of individual, undeniable traits and fosters ways of forging these unique abilities into constructive qualities.
To date, Scott and his organizations have served more than a thousand youth and adults, and sent scores of kids to film schools across the nation. The Young Filmmakers Workshop has become the flagship program of Denver Film Society's education programming. In 2011, as a result of the work, Scott Kinnamon was named a 2011 Pathmaker of the Year by the Denver Post.
Hear Scott discussing his filmmaking workshop for PTSD-suffering soldiers: Soldiers Making Movies. Here is a short video profile of Scott on HDNET.
“While Scott Kinnamon’s ability to symphonically draw associations and connections between seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts to break new ground is incredible in itself, it is his ability to bring out the cross pollinator in us all that is his true gift.
Storytelling remains at the heart of what it means to be human and Scott enables both his students and peers with the tools to capture our imagination with compelling narratives that go beyond oral tradition. He allows youth especially, through various mediums, to root their stories in authenticity, to spark emotion and action, transmit values and objectives, foster collaboration, and create heroes and villains that inspire us all.”
“#4 Filmmakers make it in Colorado Enterprises like the 48-Hour Film Project, the Denver Film Society’s Young Filmmakers Workshops and the Emerging Filmmakers Project give up-and-coming moviemakers a way strut their stuff. . . .”