Premiere Run!

Sofia (a quietly magnetic Mimi Davila) 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. – Greenwich Entertainment

NYT Critic’s Pick! “A work of fine-grained realism.” – Natalia Winkelman, the New York Times

THE SCOUT screens alongside a selection of films taking advantage of New York City’s unique locations in the 1980s with our repertory series “LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION: ’80s NYC“