The Scout (2026)
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Director: Paula Andrea Gonzalez-Nasser Run Time: 89 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2026
Starring: Ikechukwu Ufomadu, Max Rosen, Mimi Davila, Rutanya Alda, Sarah Herrman
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
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.
“A contemplative and funny portrait of a city, an industry, and the sacrifices needed to live in both.”
—Jacob Oller for AV Club
Drawing from her own experience as a location scout, writer-director Paula González-Nasser captures the poetry and costs of being a young creative.
The Scout (2026) had its world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival.
About the filmmaker:
Paula González-Nasser 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. Her feature directorial debut, The Scout (2026), had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival. In 2025, she was named one of 25 new faces in independent film by Filmmaker Magazine.
Before directing her first feature, González-Nasse produced films like Melina Valdez’s Weapons and Their Names (2023), which premiered at Sundance 2023, and Ryan Martin Brown’s Free Time (2023), which received three nominations at the inaugural Slamdance Indie Awards. González-Nasser is a two-time Gotham Film Week participant and a 2023 Sundance Producers Intensive Fellow. Previously, she 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.
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