SCOTT ANGER / CO-PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Scott Anger is an award-winning freelance journalist, producer and cinematographer with more than 20 years of experience.  Much of his work has focused on the consequences of armed conflicts in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia. He began his career as a freelance photojournalist working on assignment for a number of publications including; TIME Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Los Angeles Times.  In 1995, Scott added aural storytelling to his photography and produced audio essays, photo-reportage and news reports for a number of publications and radio networks in the United States and Europe including National Public Radio, British Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Blue Danube and Australian Broadcasting.  From 1998 to 2000, he was a full-time radio correspondent and bureau chief based in Islamabad, Pakistan.  Scott returned to visual storytelling as an independent videojournalist after the terrorist attacks in 2001.  He shot and field produced segments of ‘SAUDI TIME BOMB’ for the PBS documentary program FRONTLINE.  The film won a number of awards, including an Alfred I. duPont Gold Baton for Excellence in Journalism from Columbia University.  Since then, Scott has worked on four other FRONTLINE films, including RETURN OF THE TALIBAN which he co-produced.  Another film, TRUTH, WAR AND CONSEQUENCES won an Alfred I. duPont Silver Baton for Excellence in Journalism.  Scott's independent film work includes HOME FRONT, by director Richard Hankin.  The film premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival and was broadcast on SHOWTIME in 2006.  Scott began documenting the plight of the Hmong while working as a photojournalist in central California in the late 1980s.  In 1997, he first visited the refugee camp at Wat Tham Krabok in Thailand during a reporting trip for the Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle newspapers. Scott is presently the deputy editor for video at the Los Angeles Times.