Dennis Scholl

Dennis Scholl is an award-winning documentary filmmaker focusing on arts and culture. His interview subjects have included Robert Redford, Frank Gehry, Wynton Marsalis, Ai Wei Wei, and Theaster Gates. Most recently, he produced and directed The Last Resort with Kareem Tabsch. The film won the audience award at the Miami Jewish Film Festival and was an official selection of DOC NYC. The film will be released theatrically via indie distributors, Kino Lorber. He co-produced and directed his first feature documentary, Deep City: The Birth of the Miami Sound, with Marlon Johnson and Chad Tingle. The film premiered at the 2014 SXSW International Film Festival, screened at film festivals all over the world and was acquired by the public broadcast station, WLRN, for international distribution. His second feature documentary, Queen of Thursdays, which he co-wrote and produced with noted Cuban filmmaker Orlando Rojas, had its world premiere at the 2016 Miami International Film Festival and was named Best Documentary. He has also produced and directed Symphony in D, the story of America's first crowd-sourced symphony which was performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He recently produced Sweet Dillard, about the national champion Dillard High School jazz orchestra and their journey to the Essentially Ellington competition at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He is the executive producer of over a dozen films with the Miami-based Borscht Film Collective, including six short films that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and Yearbook, the winner of the 2014 Animated Short category at Sundance. Most recently, he helped produce the animated short, The Sun Like a Big Dark Animal, which premiered at Sundance, along with Glove, which also premiered at Sundance and won Best Animated Short at SXSW. He also produced the experimental film Hearts of Palm and was executive producer of Namour. His short film, Sunday's Best, won Best Documentary Short at the South Dakota Film Festival. His film, Dancing with the Trees, won the Audience Choice Award at the Magnolia Film Festival. His film, Everyone has a Place, about Wynton Marsalis' Abyssinian Mass concert tour was named Best Documentary Short at the Capital Cities Black Film Festival and is screened on public television stations across America. In 2019 he completed documentaries about Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Cecile Mclorin Salvant and abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still.