Scott Coffey, Director

“Down in the Valley,” The Head and the Heart, Subpop...

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“Down in the Valley,” The Head and the Heart, Subpop Records, 2011.

Video for “Yulia” by Wolf Parade from EXPO 86 (Sub...

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:56:00 -0700

Video for “Yulia” by Wolf Parade from EXPO 86 (Sub Pop Records, 2010).

“Yulia” video named Video of the Year by Movieline!

“Yulia” was selected by Photo District News as Music Video of the Year. (Shot by Chris Hornbecker)!

Music Video. Handsome Furs. “What About Us” from...

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:39:00 -0700

Music Video. Handsome Furs. “What About Us” from Sound Kapital. Subpop Records, 2011.

Read a Stereogum interview with Scott Coffey about the making of the video.

Video for Handsome Furs song “I’m Confused.”...

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Video for Handsome Furs song “I’m Confused.” Sub Pop. 2010.

“I’m Confused” video on Spin’s Top 20 Music Videos of the Year!

“I’m Confused” video #2 on MTV’s Buzzworthy Videos of the Year!

Short film for Deschutes Brewery, 2010.

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Short film for Deschutes Brewery, 2010.

Music video for Anya Marina’s “Satellite...

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:03:00 -0800

Music video for Anya Marina’s “Satellite Heart” from the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack, Chop Shop/Atlantic Records, 2009.

Video for Death Vessel song “Circa.” Sub Pop...

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Video for Death Vessel song “Circa.” Sub Pop Records. 2009.

Video for the Anya Marina song, “Move You.”...

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Video for the Anya Marina song, “Move You.” Atlantic/Chop Shop Records. 2008.

Television spot for Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield, produced by...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:34:00 -0700

Television spot for Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield, produced by NORTH/Jonathan Silberberg, 2009.

Television spot for Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield. Produced by...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:34:00 -0700

Television spot for Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield. Produced by NORTH/Jonathan Silberberg, 2009.

Television spot for Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield. Produced by...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:34:00 -0700

Television spot for Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield. Produced by NORTH/Jonathan Silberberg, 2009.

ELLIE PARKER REVIEWS “TWO THUMBS WAY UP” -Ebert and Robert At...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:13:00 -0700

ELLIE PARKER REVIEWS

“TWO THUMBS WAY UP”
-Ebert and Robert At the Movies

“Ellie Parker” is the sharpest, most authentic portrait of Hollywood life made in the last several years… a tightly structured comedy. What makes this movie work, both as satire and as pathos, is the obvious intimacy and trust between director and actor”
-Andrew O’Hehir Salon

“Ellie Parker” is a funny, fractured valentine… Ellie Parker is at once
hilarious and harrowing, and in being so, seems right on target. There’s an honesty, as painful as it is comical, about Ellie and her story that lingers long after the lights go up.”
-Kevin Thomas Los Angles Times

“Ellie Parker” is a corrosive, deadpan comedy. Naomi Watts delivers a fearless portrayal of the title character… a brave acting tour de force.
- Stephen Holden NEW YORK TIMES

“A sharp exposé of the bilious undercurrents running beneath Hollywood’s candy-coloured surface, ELLIE PARKER is a fizzy and hugely entertaining debut.”
-Edward Lawrenson SIGHT AND SOUND

The acting is so fresh and convincing that it is virtually impossible to determine what’s been written and what’s been improvised. There is a striking sense of immediacy that permeates the film. It has a strange, beautiful sense of melancholy.
-WALTER SALLES FILMMAKER MAGAZINE

“ELLIE PARKER is a bitingly raw comedy about the travails of making it in Hollywood. Watts is extraordinary throughout, but the opening sequence – which finds Ellie auditioning for the role of a wailing Southern belle, then getting into her car and driving through L.A. while changing clothes, talking on her cell phone, and rehearsing lines for and audition as a tough-talking New York hooker – is a tour de force.
-John Powers on NPR FRESH AIR and for Vogue Magazine.

“This is a witty film, with the superficiality and cruelty of LA standing as metaphor This lovely, funny film creates a truly memorable character. An amazing   performance from Watts shows why she is no longer a struggling actress herself.”   -Channel 4 UK

“Writer-director-costar Scott Coffey, has a tart comic mind.”
-Entertainment Weekly

This is a fun, scattershot Hollywood spoof by writer-director Scott Coffey
-Ella Taylor LA Weekly

Naomi Watts is ferociously good in an astute comedy about the misadventures of a self-involved, scatterbrained actress from Australia who’s trying to make it in Hollywood. Shot in a faux cinema verite style, the film is knowing about what it takes to fake it ‘til you make it. Three out of four stars.
-People Magazine

“…laughs, warts-and-all insight and a knockout lead performance.”
-BBC

”Ellie Parker” is as indie as movies come. The industry in-jokes are wicked and the psychic weariness fully felt — ”Parker” is made by people who know their business.
-The Boston Globe

Few films have made such good use of DV, with its grainy shadows highlighting Watts’ many contrasts beautifully.
-Flavorpill NY

This charming little character study is guaranteed to make you laugh and cry. Forget the kryptonite and those blue tights - this wry little gem is a complete joy. -The Mirror - London

The script is superb, combining jet black comedy with sharply observed and all too believable insights into what it’s like to be a struggling actress in L.A. It’s also heartbreakingly sad in places. Ellie Parker is a thoroughly enjoyable film with a terrific performance from Naomi Watts and a superb supporting cast.
-The London View

”Ellie Parker” is a good movie, fearless and true, observant and merciless.”
“Ellie Parker,” a daring and truthful film by Scott Coffey”
-Roger Ebert

Scott Coffey Bio

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Scott Coffey knows his craft from both sides of the camera from his work as an actor, producer, writer, and director.

He was raised in Kailua Hawaii, attended school in Rome, Italy, and lives in Portland, Oregon.

As an actor, he has appeared in numerous films including several John Hughes movies, Nicholas Kazan’s DREAM LOVER, David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and SHAG, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor. Most recently he can be seen as Jack Rabbit in David Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE and in Lynch’s online series RABBITS.

In 2004 Filmmaker Magazine named Scott one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film for his first short film ELLIE PARKER, which premiered at that year’s Sundance Film Festival. Naomi Watts starred as the title character. Scott and Naomi continued to film a series of shorts based on the same character and in 2005, the feature film version of ELLIE PARKER, starring Naomi Watts and Chevy Chase was an Official Selection of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. The film also won the New American Cinema Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, and Scott received the Breakthrough Writer/Director Award from Movieline’s Hollywood Life Magazine. The movie received rave reviews from The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Sight and Sound and Roger Ebert. Ebert and Roeper gave Ellie Parker “Two Thumbs Up.” The film was distributed in the US by Strand Releasing is currently out on DVD.

Recently Scott adapted the best-selling Lolly Winston novel HAPPINESS SOLD SEPARATELY for Fox Searchlight. Scott will direct with Julia Roberts attached to star. His screen adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s ALL GOD’S CHILDREN CAN DANCE (aka K-TOWN SUPERFROG) screened as the opening night film of CineVegas and at the Deauville International Film Festival.

Scott’s working on his next film Adult World that will star Emma Roberts. Shooting will begin in early 2012.