Scott Jones is an emerging filmmaker and playwright from Nova Scotia, Canada. Scott gravitates towards forms of artistic expression that explore disabled grief, resilience, and joy and narratives that delve deeply into the human experience. Following an attack that paralyzed him, he worked with director Laura Marie Wayne and the National Film Board of Canada on an award-winning feature length documentary, LOVE, SCOTT (2018) that explores his trauma and healing in relation to homophobic violence. This past year, Scott wrote and directed his first short film, COIN SLOT (2022), which premiered at the British Film Institute LGBTQ Flare Festival (UK, 2022) and Phoenix Film Festival (AZ, 2022), and was recently invited to the 2022 Bengaluru International Short Film Festival—India’s only Oscar-Qualifying festival. The film was a finalist in its category — Inclusive Film (Fiction/Doc). Presently, Scott is developing an animated short film with poet Tanya Davis and animator Sarita McNeil (FREEDOM), which is supported by the NFB and will enter production this Fall (2022).