Scout Tafoya
Directing
Scout Tafoya is a film critic, video essayist, filmmaker, and author of Cinemaphagy: On The Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper, the first book-length critical study of the director of “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.” Originally from from Doylestown, PA, he is the creator of RogerEbert.com’s The Unloved, the longest running video essay series on the web, about movies in need of a second look. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Film Comment, Nylon Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Film Stage among others. He is the director of over 25 feature films including “Eyam,” “House of Little Deaths,” and “Beata Virgo Viscera,” which debuted on RogerEbert.com.
Known for
The Sweet East
December 1, 2023
Fourteen
August 8, 2019
Hang The Pale Bastard
December 10, 2022
Xenolith Atlas
December 19, 2022
Queen Regent
December 29, 2022
Four Nights
To all my friends on all their birthdays
October 6, 2010
Beata Virgo Viscera
December 7, 2018
Rachel
April 14, 2019
Superconnected
February 23, 2017
I Am No Bird
December 10, 2015
Diana
March 5, 2016
Behind the camera37
- 2025Lonesome Death Director, Writer, Editor
- 2025Mutineer Director, Editor, Writer
- 2023The Sweet East Location Scout
- 2022Queen Regent Director of Photography, Director, Producer
- 2022Xenolith Atlas Director of Photography, Director, Writer
- 2022Hang The Pale Bastard Director
- 2020Under Me You Director
- 2020Zona Seyl Director, Cinematography, Writer
- 2020The Silence Like A Sea Director, Editor, Writer
- 2019