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Urban Underground Cinema

About Me

Christopher Scott is a film director, producer, writer, and editor, noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues. He co-founded GrandTheftVideo.com and is the owner of Maroontown Pictures.


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My Interests

Watching GTV, "Friday Night Fights", Surfing The Internet, Getting my hands dirty, and then eating Jamaican food right after.

I'd like to meet:



Music:

Dancehall, Rockers, Roots Reggae, Lovers Rock, Soca, Old Calypso (Mighty Sparrow), Hip-hop, Jungle/Drum & Bass, Grime, R & B, Classic Soul (Motown), and UK Garage. I also like to listen to jazz music when I am working- especially Miles Davis.

Movies:

Ran by Akira Kurosawa, Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee, and Weekend by Jean-Luc Godard.

Television:

The only things I like watching on television are boxing, Sunday morning soccer, and Jeopardy. But whenever an awards show is on like the BET awards or the Oscars, then I try to catch it.

Books:

100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, An Underground Education by Richard Zacks, The Rastafarians by Leonard E. Barrett, On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates, The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcom X, The Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis, The Quality of Hurt by Chester Himes, Acting for the Camera by Tony Barr, Bite The Stars by Eliza Clark, Underboss by Sam Gravano, Donnie Brasco by Joe Pistone, Revolution from Within by Gloria Steinem, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton, The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams, and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney.

Heroes:

Nanny of the Maroons, Hannibal of Carthage, Louise Bennett (a.k.a. Miss Lou), Muhammad Ali, Chaka Zulu, Martin Luther King jr., Harriet Tubman, Nelson Mandela, Booker T. Washington, and Job from the bible.

My Blog

Testing to see if the videos on GTV can be embedded on my myspace blog

Here goes:Yung Berg - The Business featuring Casha It does and it doesn't. There's a lot of work to do....
Posted by Maroontown Pictures on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:21:00 PST

Day 2 of the Web 2.0 Expo

http://www.grandtheftvideo.com/blog/?p=28 ...
Posted by Maroontown Pictures on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:02:00 PST

Day 1 of Web 2.0 Expo

I attended day 1 of the Web 2.0 Expo. I overslept, rushed to take a shower and was relieved at the fact that it was walking distance from Hell's Kitchen. They held it over at the Javitz Centre on 11th...
Posted by Maroontown Pictures on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:05:00 PST

Pure- 24 minute version

GrandTheftVideo.com presents the grittiest documentary ever made about the subject of drug culture.-- The first film of it's kind to deal with the subject from the unique p...
Posted by Maroontown Pictures on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:04:00 PST

My Mini City

click here to visit my mini city.
Posted by Maroontown Pictures on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:05:00 PST

The first 13 minutes of "For Our Sons" is now available for FREE

Grand Theft Video is proud to announce that they are making the prologue of the ground-breaking documentary"For Our Sons" available on iTunes through the Grand Theft Video website.Just go to http://ww...
Posted by Maroontown Pictures on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:04:00 PST

For Our Sons sneak peek

For Our Sons sneak peek Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by Maroontown Pictures on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:11:00 PST

UFO in Haiti video

Yesterday was one of those days. I successfully made 3 DVDs of the rough cut of "For Our Sons" and sent two copies to the ABFF in L.A. and one copy to the Sundance Film Festival as well. I also sent ...
Posted by Maroontown Pictures on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:59:00 PST

Tai Chi, Fire Hydrants, and The Boomin System

So yesterday was pretty uneventful. The documentary "For Our Sons" that I am editing is due to be sent out tomorrow so me and Eric were putting the finishing touches on a rough-rough-rough-rough cut ...
Posted by Maroontown Pictures on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:27:00 PST

I WISH I HAD A CAMERA

This weekend was one of those weekends where I wished I had a camera. I had a Palm pilot (which I bought on Ebay) but it was and is garbage and it kept dying. But when it did work, it took the most ...
Posted by Maroontown Pictures on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:58:00 PST