I'm a writer and producer currently working in film/television. I am the Sr. Writer/co-Creator of The Learning Channel (TLC) series "Dead Tenants," and have developed & produced original programming for MSNBC, ESPN, CNBC, Spike! TV, The Scifi Channel, A&E, The Hallmark Channel, Discovery Networks and TLC (The Learning Channel). My original television pilot The REAL Deal was recently awarded 1st Place in Scriptapalooza TV for Best Original Pilot. I'm the creator/exec producer of the scifi film "The NUKE Brothers" (featured selection, DragonCon the World's Largest Scifi & Fantasy Film Festival) and I'm currently involved (as writer/exec. producer) in the production of an upcoming scifi feature film "The Men In the Moon", and am focused on my latest novel, "The Apocalypse Will Be Televised: A Reality Television Tragedy."
I'm always looking to connect with others in my field(s), who share a love of storytelling and creating.
Latest News! 6-5-2009
--My story The Big A is scheduled to appear in the Summer, 2009 issue (#6) of Shroud Magazine, available at Barnes & Nobles - in stores NOW!
--I am thrilled and ecstatic to report that the Shroud Publishing anthology Beneath the Surface, in which my piece "Thorguson" is the opening story, has been nominated for the prestigious 2009 Bram Stoker Award!!! I am truly humbled, honored and amazed to be included in such prestigious company for one of the most prestigious awards in literary genre fiction... to be in the running with the likes of Stephen King is beyond anything I'd imagined...!
--An excerpt from my short novel Hiram Grange and the Twelve Little Hitlers will appear in Issue #5 of Shroud Magazine. The novel itself will be available in Barnes & Nobles everywhere, and other booksellers late Summer/Fall 2009.
--Shooting has begun on my short "high-concept" horror film Zee Is For Zombie and we hope to have post-production complete in time for the 2010 Summer film festivals.
--My story Garage Days is scheduled to appear in the October, 2009 issue of Withersin Magazine.
--Amazon.com has selected my first novel "Champion Mountain" as one of the available selections for their new-fangled Kindle digital book reader. Check it out Here and check out the non-Kindle version here...!
--The folks at Quiet Earth did a nice little write-up on my current feature film project "The Men In the Moon," calling it "art in cinema" - Check It Out!
--I've recently finished development (writer/co-producer) on "The Mole People," a new television series for the A&E network - a documentary reality series about the strange societies of homeless cultures that dwell beneath the streets of New York City.
ABOUT SCOTT C. CARR
Scott C. Carr
E! Online recently hailed Scott Christian Carr’s work, saying “True genius abounds here—Chris Carter, take heed!” Scott is the Writer and Associate Producer of Dead Tenants, a paranormal reality television series currently airing on TLC (The Learning Channel). He has written for Sony Entertainment and developed Closer Encounters, a paranormal-themed multimedia news and fiction department for Artisan Films’ Distant Corners Entertainment Group.
As Director of Development with both the Emmy Award-winning Triple Threat TV and the Academy Award-nominated Fredric Golding Productions, Scott developed reality/documentary television programming for such networks as MSNBC, ESPN, CNBC, Spike! TV, The Scifi Channel, Discovery Networks and TLC (The Learning Channel). Carr’s work has been favorably reviewed in both MovieLine and Heavy Metal: The Adult Illustrated Fantasy Magazine, and in 1999, for his para-sociological news journal The Flying Saucer Gazette he was awarded The Hunter S. Thompson Award for Outstanding Journalism. Scott recently left Triple Threat TV to start his own production company Brothers' Carr Productions---their television dramedy The REAL Deal was recently awarded 1st Place in Scriptapalooza TV for Best Original Pilot.
As a writer and journalist Scott has an insatiable curiosity for modern folklore. He has appeared as an expert on both television and radio, including recently FOX News: FOX In Focus and the film documentary The Hudson Valley Sightings. In addition, from 1995 to 2001 he produced and co-hosted his own radio talk show on 99.5 FM WBAI, NY. He’s the Chief Editor of the critically acclaimed Apocalypse Fiction Magazine and the Writer and Executive Producer of the AFM/Blue Moon Movies post-apocalyptic scifi comedy film, The NUKE Brothers. His fiction and nonfiction have recently appeared in Withersin Magazine, Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine, Shroud Magazine, Horror Quarterly, Pulp Eternity, The Dream People Literary Magazine, and the book anthologies Beneath the Surface (nominated for the 2009 Bram Stoker Award), Desolate Places, Of Flesh and Hunger, The Wicked Will Laugh, and Scary! Holiday Tales to Make you Scream. A chapter from his novel Believer appears in Sick: An Anthology of Illness. Scott is a contributing writer to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Literature.
His epic novel of superhero family dysfunction, Champion Mountain, is currently available from Double Dragon Publishing and was recently selected for distribution on Amazon.com's Kindle Digital Book-Reader. He is the creator and writer of The Continuing Adventures of Fat Man and Little Boy which is published by Plastic Farm Press and is currently available in comic book stores everywhere.
Scott is currently shoulder deep in production on his post-apocalyptic feature film "The Men In the Moon" (a "spiritual sequel" to the critically acclaimed "The NUKE Brothers".) He's also hard at work producing/shooting his film documentary, Junkyard Living, and putting the finishing touches on his latest novel, The Apocalypse Will Be Televised: A Reality Television Tragedy.
