Scot Barbour was born in 1969 in Oakland, California and was raised in a district of Union City called "Old Alvarado" by his mother, on a diet of Art History, Greek Mythology, Joseph Campbell, The Cosmos, Butch & Sundance. His father, originally from Seattle, was Captain of the District Attorney’s office in Oakland and had a large collection of books about Harry Houdini and magic.
Bruce Fairweather (ex-Mother Love Bone), Scot Barbour & Greg Gilmore (ex-Mother Love Bone)
As a child, Scot became fascinated with the escape artist. He had his sisters and his brother chain him to every piece of furniture in the house, so that he could perform his elaborate escapes (he always escaped!). A rough and tumble life left Scot a high-school dropout at 16, but his one skill quickly landed him a job as a locksmith’s apprentice.
For 12 years, Scot worked as a locksmith, eventually becoming one of the best safe crackers in the San Francisco Bay Area (a power used only for good). He even operated his own business, Champion Lock and Safe, from the back of a ‘77 Chevy Van. Although he excelled at his trade, Scot had yet to find his bliss. He wanted more -he wanted to go to college and study the arts. He attended Chabot College at night and eventually earned his GED. After a couple years, he finally realized that he could never actually graduate from college if he only took classes in art and theatre. It was a big revelation and a heavy blow.
Scot went to France to "figure it all out" and search out some of his first loves, the Impressionists. He stayed for a month, visiting the Louvre, Musee D’Orsay, Giverny and Auvre sur oise. On his 25th birthday he went to the top of the Eiffel Tower. It was there that he had his epiphany. Having had such a love of performing, writing, drawing and painting, Scot decided that he wanted to do them all and filmmaking was THE WAY. He would have to give it all up for art.
Back in San Francisco, while still working full-time as a locksmith, Scot put himself through a rigorous schedule of courses that allowed him to transfer to university. He was accepted to San Francisco State to study Film Production. Two and a half years later he graduated with top honors. Having begun production on his documentary, MALFUNKSHUN, Scot moved to L.A., where he left the locksmith life behind. Scot wanted to become the best film director he could be, and in order to accomplish this goal he did two things: continued shooting his doc (by selling everything he owned) and focused on the craft of editing. His first job in Hollywood was as a runner for an Avid rental facility and it wasn’t long before he was a technician, building stations and providing support for major feature films. He moved from tech to trainer in a short period of time, authored the very first course in Final Cut Pro (because it didn’t exist), and eventually taught editing with both Avid and Final Cut Pro software at UCLA and all over L.A. At the end of the day, Scot still continued production on MALFUNKSHUN.
During his period as an editing instructor, Scot met Christopher Coppola and the two struck a friendship based on motorcycles, filmmaking and Godzilla. After a few short projects together, he earned his DGA membership as a 2nd Unit Director on Christopher’s feature film, "Creature From Sunnyside Up Trailer Park." Scot also worked for Evergreen Films, where he edited episodes for Discovery Channel’s "Dinosaur Planet," and continued into post-production on his doc.
Because of his work as an instructor, editor, director, and filmmaker, he was recognized and tapped by Apple Computer to be their development-liaison to Hollywood. Scot has now worked on many major motion pictures as a Post Production Consultant, helped train some of the best editors in the world on Apple’s software, and has developed revolutionary new workflows for filmmaking.
Today, Scot continues to help Hollywood embrace the future of filmmaking. Having "given it all up for art" and completed MALFUNKSHUN, he now runs his own film and music production company, DosOjos, producing films, music, and screenplays. And when not making films or helping others do so, Scot enjoys trying to truly comprehend String Theory, "macking" on video games, and spending quiet time with his baby boy, Sagan, and 3.5 cats.
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