Love, Scott
Directed byLaura Marie Wayne
Written byLaura Marie Wayne
Produced byAnnette Clarke
StarringScott Jones
CinematographyLaura Marie Wayne
Edited byLaura Marie Wayne
Marcos Caraballo
Release date
Running time
76 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Love, Scott is a 2018 Canadian documentary film, directed by Laura Marie Wayne.[1] The film profiles Scott Jones, a gay man who was left paraplegic in an anti-gay attack in 2013.[1]

Background

On October 12, 2013, Jones, a gay resident of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, was stabbed by a knife-wielding man after leaving the Acro Lounge.[2] His attacker, Shane Matheson, was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison in June 2014.[3] During his recovery, Jones participated in the creation of Don't Be Afraid, a province-wide campaign to combat homophobia,[4] and was selected as the grand marshal of the 2014 Halifax Pride parade.[4]

Film

The film profiles Jones, who was by 2018 a music student in Toronto, Ontario.[5] The film explores his process of reaching a place of forgiveness, both against his attacker and against the police for declining to prosecute the case as a hate crime, and his desire to create something positive out of his experience by using choral music as a tool of healing and social change education.[5]

The film had its theatrical premiere at BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival in March 2018,[6] and had its North American premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in April.[7] It was later screened at the Inside Out Film and Video Festival in May, where it received the Jury Prize for Best Canadian Feature.[8]

In 2022, Jones released his own short film, Coin Slot, about the impending anniversary of his 2013 attack.[9] It was the winner of the Best Atlantic Short Film award at the 2022 Atlantic International Film Festival.[10] He previously won the festival's RBC Script Development Award in 2020 for a screenplay titled It's the Fear That Keeps Me Awake,[11] although sources have not yet been located to clarify whether that was a working title for Coin Slot, or another film yet to be released.

References

  1. 1 2 "After surviving attack, Scott Jones chronicles the 'lifelong process' of forgiveness". The Current, April 27, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Scott Jones said he was attacked for being gay". CBC News, December 11, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Scott Jones says he forgives his attacker, Shane Edward Matheson". CBC News, June 12, 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Halifax Pride names Scott Jones grand marshal". Xtra!, July 6, 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Inside Out 2018: Love, Scott captures the personal toll of police failure". Now, May 23, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Makers of hate-crime documentary Love, Scott: ‘Being in the closet is a form of trauma’". PinkNews, March 29, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Review: ‘Love, Scott’". Point of View, April 25, 2018.
  8. ↑ "'White Rabbit' wins 2018 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival audience award". Screen Daily, June 4, 2018.
  9. ↑ "'Together Again' at the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival". CBC News Nova Scotia, September 8, 2022.
  10. ↑ Stephen Cooke, "Queens of the Qing Dynasty, Bernie Langille among Atlantic International Film Festival award winners". SaltWire Network, September 22, 2022.
  11. ↑ Stephen Cooke, "Bone Cage strikes a chord with FIN Stream audiences, earns four awards". SaltWire Network, September 28, 2020.
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