Scott Burkhardt is a graduate of Davidson College and Columbia University’s School of the Arts where he received an MFA in Film. He was a Dean's Scholar at Columbia and received support for his work from New Line Cinema, the Milos Forman Foundation, The Caucus Foundation, and the Carole and Robert Daly Foundation. His thesis film, The Assastant, won multiple awards at the Columbia University Film Festival and went on to be nominated for a Student Academy Award. The film aired on PBS and Hulu for five years.
His latest short film, Girls Are Strong Here, won multiple screenplay awards and production funding from the Sun Valley Film Festival. It went on to play film festivals around the world and won the 2021 Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short @ IFF Boston and won the 2022 Humanitas Prize for Short Film. His next short film, We Buy Houses, is currently in post production and scheduled to play festivals in 2023.
He has written for television (NBC’s Smash) and developed projects for NBC Universal, CBS Studios and Flower Films. He is currently working on various writing/directing projects and teaches screenwriting and television writing at New York University, Killer Films/Stony Brook and the University of Pennsylvania.
