Scott Farwell

Scott Farwell is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and an executive producer of the in-production Scarlett Johansson film, “The Featherwood.” The movie is an adaptation of his 2016 series, “My Aryan Princess,” a gritty and voyeuristic story of a heroin addict recruited by federal agents to infiltrate the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.

Scott is a former enterprise reporter for The Dallas Morning News. His 2014 narrative, “The Girl in the Closet,” offered a touching portrait of a young woman who survived ghastly child abuse. Three years later, Scott and other reporters examined the racial hatred of a mass shooter who killed five Dallas police officers, the deadliest day for law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001. Both stories were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

During a 30-year newspaper career, Scott covered many of the nation’s most memorable stories – Hurricane Katrina, the election of Barack Obama, an earthquake and humanitarian crisis in Haiti – won dozens of writing awards and was named runner-up Texas Journalist of the Year.

He is a former adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he taught media ethics.