Scott Anger is the founder and creative director at Pandau, an interactive company that designs, implements and manages campaigns around storytelling projects and documentary films.
For more than 25 years, Scott has worked as an independent journalist and award-winning documentary filmmaker. Before starting his own company, Scott was the Director of Video at The Los Angeles Times where he led a department of full-time video journalists and developed editorial video strategy for the organization.
As a freelance photojournalist, Scott worked on assignment for a number of leading publications. In 1996, he began producing radio stories for National Public Radio and the British Broadcasting Corporation both in the U.S. and while living in Southeast Asia.
From 1998 to 2000, Scott was the Voice of America radio bureau chief based in Islamabad from where he covered Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. He established and staffed one of only five foreign news bureaus that operated full-time under the strict Taliban regime in Kabul.
After the attacks on the United States in 2001, Scott began reporting, field producing and shooting films for the documentary program FRONTLINE on PBS. Since then, he has helped produce seven films for the program including two that have been awarded the Alfred I. duPont Award for Excellence in Journalism, television’s highest journalism award.
In addition to his current affairs work, Scott has helped produce six feature-length documentary films: Home Front (SHOWTIME), Greensboro; Closer to the Truth(PBS/theatrical),Witnesses to a Secret War (PBS), Life in Limbo (independent/theatrical), The Lost Bird Project and Regeneration (in production). He has also directed, produced, shot and edited non-fiction work for clients such as The International Rescue Committee, Starbucks Coffee and the Open Society Foundations.
Scott teaches storytelling and documentary production techniques at workshops by the National Press Photographers Association, Western Kentucky University, Syracuse University and University of California, Los Angeles. He is on the advisory board for Brooks Institute School of Visual Journalism and consults with a broad range of organizations on media strategy, audience engagement and content distribution on digital platforms. Scott has been a panelist and lecturer at a number of industry gatherings including the TriBeca Film Festival, NPPA’s annual Convergence conferences and the BBC’s corporate meeting in London.
Scott is a “Studio Artist” in residence at the Angels Gate Cultural Center in Los Angeles.