Scott Rosenfelt is one of Hollywood’s most successful independent producers.  On the strength of such films as Home Alone, Smoke Signals, Mystic Pizza, and Teen Wolf, Scott has garnered international acclaim and recognition.

 Rosenfelt has just wrapped principal photography on Holiday Twist, an independently-funded Christmas film to be distributed by Grindstone/Lionsgate in 2023.  The film stars Sean Astin, Neal McDonough and Kelly Stables.  He has just started prep on SellBlock, a limited series to be shot in the Philippines for Amazon Studios in partnership with BlackOps Entertainment.

 Critical Thinking was released by Vertical Entertainment and CMG Entertainment, and chronicles the story of the Miami Jackson High School chess team that won the national chess championship in 1998.  It was an early selection of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival for its world premiere, and was directed by John Leguizamo and he starred along with Michael K. Williams and Jorge Lendeborg. 

Rosenfelt has written the screenplay for and will be producing Crashing Through along with Ray Carballada and Larry Weitzner from Ampifly Productions.  Adapted from the book, Crashing Through, by Robert Kurson, it is the story of Mike May, who, blinded at age 3, received a stem cell/cornea transplant at age 48 in which he regained his sight.

Rosenfelt’s script, CounterPlay, which he is also producing, will go into production during the Second Quarter of 2023 in the Philippines, with Pedring Lopez (Maria) directing.

Rosenfelt wrote the script for and will be producing Fever, a feature film based on the Bre-X gold stock scandal.  The film is slated for a Third Quarter, 2023 start.

Rosenfelt has written and will be producing Nanda Devi, based on one of the CIA’s most secretive missions, set in the Himalayas in 1965 when the Chinese were testing their first nuclear bombs.  The film will be directed by Tarsem Singh, and is projected for a Spring, 2023, start.  The film is co-produced by Rhea Films/Hercules Film Fund.

Rosenfelt has written and will produce The Five, which is the story of the famed “500 Club” in Atlantic City, and its colorful owner, Paul “Skinny” D’Amato.  D’Amato was the inspiration for the Rat Pack, and was credited for putting Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on stage together for the first time.  His club was front and center for the most colorful time in Atlantic City history, as D’Amato was also witness to many events in our country’s history. 

Rosenfelt was Producer and Writer on The Jade Pendant, winner of the Golden Angel Award for the Best Film by an Independent Producer in the 2017 Chinese-American Film Festival in Los Angeles.  The tragic love story is set against the backdrop of the Los Angeles Chinatown War of 1871, and stars Korean actress Clara Lee and Taiwanese actor Godfrey Gao.  It was directed by Po Chih Leong.

 His documentary, 7 Days In Syria, distributed theatrically in August, 2016, showcased the extraordinary work of Janine di Giovanni, the award-winning journalist specializing in reporting from conflict zones who had been covering the war in Syria as the Middle East Editor for Newsweek.  Rosenfelt wrote and produced it with Robert Rippberger directing.

As writer, director and producer, his first documentary, Standing Silent, a recipient of a Sundance Documentary Filmmaker Grant, had its theatrical release on January 25, 2013 It had its World Premiere at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival and has played the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival along with the Doc NY Film Festival as well as having won the Best Documentary at the World Jewish Film Festival in Ashkelon, Israel. 

 Rosenfelt directed the feature film, Family Prayers, starring Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer and Paul Reiser, which had its World Premiere at the 1993 Palm Springs International Film Festival and the 1993 Seattle International Film Festival.

 Home Alone, in which Rosenfelt served as Executive Producer, remains the highest grossing live action comedy of all time, generating over $1 billion worldwide.  Mystic Pizza, which he also produced, launched the career of Julia Roberts and went on to critical and commercial success, while Teen Wolf, which Rosenfelt also produced, starred Michael J. Fox, is one of the highest grossing independent films of all time.  Extremities, which Rosenfelt produced, starred Farrah Fawcett, and garnered international, critical and commercial acclaim as well.

 At ShadowCatcher Entertainment, a company he co-founded in 1994, he produced the award-winning Smoke Signals.  Written by highly acclaimed novelist/poet Sherman Alexie, Smoke Signals was the winner of the Audience Award and the Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by Miramax Films.  It was nominated for multiple Spirit Award Nominations and won for Best Debut Performance for Evan Adams.

 From 2012-2015, Rosenfelt served as Professional-in-Residence at Quinnipiac University.  He has been a guest lecturer at the Beijing Film Academy as well as at Harvard’s Department of Government, and the American University in Paris.  He has spoken numerous times at the Tisch School at NYU, USC, UCLA, Chapman University and Loyola Marymount as well as the AFI.  He received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 Lighthouse International Film Festival. 

 Rosenfelt is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  He is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.