Scott Rice
Lecturer
E-mail: srice2@mail.utexas.edu
Office: CMA 5.132
Phone: 512-797-4141
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
scottricefilms.com
Scott Rice is an Addy Award-winning commercial director. His work includes national spots for Shell, Mastercard, Time Warner Cable, Subway, Sears and more. He is also a feature film screenwriter. He recently wrote on assignment for TroubleMaker Studios and adapted Robert Lipsyte's book One Fat Summer for Sixth Street Films.
Rice is attached to direct a number of high-concept feature comedies including My Monster (IFP Script Market 2006), Buffalo Speedway (2nd Place, Final Draft International screenplay competition), and the coming-of-age comedy Gopal Gets It for Seth Caplan (In Search of a Midnight Kiss) and Anish Savjani (I'll Come Running).
In 2007 Rice founded The Sass Factory Productions. Under the new company he wrote and directed the hit comedy web series Script Cops for Sony Pictures and Never Do This for MTV Networks. The latter aired on Comedy Central in 2008.
In 2005, Rice associate produced and edited the indie feature Partner(s) starring Julie Bowen, Michael Ian Black, and Saul Rubinek. The comedy premiered at HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival and was broadcast on Lifetime.
Scott Rice also makes short films and holds a staggering film festival record of nearly 250 official selections and 85 awards. Showtime, Blockbuster, PBS, and Atomfilms have distributed his films. Movie legend Roger Corman called Rice's popular comedy Perils in Nude Modeling “a remarkable tour de force.” He is currently in development on a Texas short film showcase series for PBS called Lonestar Shorts.
In 1996 Rice art directed and wrote Activision's smash-hit game “Soldier of Fortune.” He left games for graduate film school where he became the first person in history nominated for two Student Academy Awards in two different categories in the same year. He also received the Warren Skaaren Endowed Presidential Scholarship.
Known as an authority on short film writing and distribution, Rice takes part in film festival panels around the country and contributes articles to various publications. He continues work on his first academic book Small Stories, Big Ideas: Demystifying the Short Film.
Rice is represented by the Brant Rose Agency in Los Angeles.
