‘Search Party’ and ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Location Scout Makes Directorial Debut with Meta Indie ‘The Scout’ — Watch First Look | rssama.com

Paula González-Nasser has already proven herself to beryllium 1 of nan apical location scouts for indie films specified arsenic Eliza Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” and beloved TV bid like “High Maintenance” and “Search Party.” Now, González-Nasser is turning her experiences connected group into a meta directorial debut pinch “The Scout.”

González-Nasser writes and directs nan indie, which was funded by Fifth Floor Pictures, a organization of filmmakers that collaborate connected each other’s features. González-Nasser on pinch Ryan Martin Brown and Mathew Romanski are listed arsenic producers.

“The Scout” centers connected Sofia (Mimi Davila), who useful arsenic a location scout for a web TV show that shoots successful New York City. The synopsis reads: “It’s her occupation to find nan homes, businesses, and exteriors wherever nan soon-to-be-shot show will return place. This intends a regular travel into nan backstage spaces and lives of galore metropolis residents, photographing their properties and concisely stepping into nan cloth of their lives. Over nan people of a time filled pinch these encounters, Sofia plays witnesser to moments of curiosity, vulnerability, and quiet tension, until her activity takes a sudden, individual turn.” Sarah Herrman, Otmara Marrero, Matt Barats, Rutanya Alda, Max Rosen, and Ikechukwu Ufomadu co-star. “The Scout” premieres astatine nan 2025 Tribeca Festival.

González-Nasser told IndieWire that producing a trio of films successful nan summertime of 2021 is what helped propel her to make her characteristic debut. (She produced short films “Weapons and Their Names” and “Prep,” arsenic good arsenic characteristic “Free Time.”)

“While I genuinely loved moving arsenic a location scout, it was a very demanding and challenging job, which made my regular life and schedule highly unpredictable. I was struggling to support my imaginative broadside projects afloat and I knew that trying to do some was unmanageable for me,” González-Nasser said. “The itch of needing to make thing of my ain grew.”

She explained really yet she “fell backmost successful emotion pinch making movie pinch my friends” and really nan “The Scout” came astir arsenic a fusion of this passion and her “funny, interesting, and sometimes scary” experiences searching for film locations. She started journaling astir these moments, peculiarly during her clip moving for “High Maintenance” location head Julie Sage. Eventually, she started to spot really Sage would build a “beautiful narration pinch nan location proprietor (if each goes well, of course)” arsenic terrific worldly for a feature.

She said, “Somewhere on nan process of trying to constitute different ideas, I came backmost to those diary entries, and thought it would beryllium absorbing to make thing retired of those. I loved nan conception of each these strangers successful New York City being linked together by this cardinal characteristic that floats successful and retired of their lives, and I was besides willing successful nan effect having each those interactions successful a time takes connected a person. There’s an affectional load to nan occupation that group don’t really deliberation about, and it creates an absorbing dichotomy — this scout having to return connected truthful overmuch from these different people through the job, but ne'er having immoderate clip to process her ain life because of nan job.”

And it wasn’t conscionable nan premise of “High Maintenance” that inspired nan position of “The Scout”: The bid besides helped hone González-Nasser’s ain directing style and reside for nan script. “Working connected projects for illustration ‘Search Party’ and ‘High Maintenance’ successful peculiar informed my directing style tremendously, because I’ve ever thought of myself and nan stories I want to constitute arsenic much dramatic-leaning, but I often find myself reworking scenes successful rewrites to incorporated much situational humor,” she said. “I emotion moving connected drama projects because often times nan actors are comedians, and they understand timing truthful good — really to utilize a agelong pause, aliases really to support a segment alive after galore takes.”

“The Scout” is besides thoroughly a New York film, and its debut astatine Tribeca is nan cleanable fresh for nan feature, according to González-Nasser. “Tribeca really champions New York stories, and I consciousness fortunate that this movie will beryllium knowledgeable for nan first time here successful nan city,” she said. “We made nan movie pinch and done our full New York community, truthful to beryllium capable to stock it pinch them here is truthful meaningful. It’s a movie not conscionable astir New York City spaces but much truthful nan idiosyncratic and analyzable group that inhabit these spaces. Every New Yorker knows that emotion of stepping down a artifact they’ve been connected hundreds of times earlier and looking astatine people’s homes and imagining what nan lives of those strangers are like. At nan consequence of coming disconnected cheekily, nan movie really became a capsule of nan experiences I’ve had present successful nan past decade, getting to transverse that threshold and meet each sorts of group who proceed to animate maine and my work.”

“The Scout” premieres astatine Tribeca arsenic a income title pinch Cinetic. Check retired nan first look below.