John D. Scott is a filmmaker and Associate Professor currently on sabbatical leave as the program director for the Documentary Studies and Production degree at Ithaca College. Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing is his second feature-length project. Scott’s ten-year journey making Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing started with his fascination with Bishop’s multi-continent search for home after leaving Nova Scotia, and her ultimately victorious struggle to be open and vulnerable in her work. Scott’s films have won multiple awards and glowing reviews in national press including the New York Times and The Globe and Mail. He has directed many short films that have played internationally in over twenty countries and one critically acclaimed feature-length documentary Scouts Are Cancelled purchased by The Documentary Channel (2008-11).