Scott Stuckey

Scott Stuckey (born March 23, 1964) is a filmmaker and record producer from Washington D.C.. Stuckey is best known as the creator of the cult TV show Pancake Mountain as well as his work with singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt.

Stuckey was born in Eastman, GA in 1964. His mother was an English teacher and father a Congressman from Georgia’s 8th district. His grandfather started Stuckey’s, a chain of restaurant’s on the highway. The family moved to DC in 1966. Stuckey had trouble in school due to a learning disability which made him feel like an outcast. In high school he was placed in a small creative school where he met like-minded people and discovered DC’s fledging Punk Scene. He recalled how important this was in a Time Magazine profile “The DC scene and Dischord (records) showed me that music could be created outside of traditional systems. There were no record companies or lawyers, just a bunch of teenage kids pressing vinyl in a basement, it was beautiful”. For the next few years he taught himself filmmaking.

In 1984 he moved to NY City where he became friends with musician Ned Ebn and photographer Chris Makos. Both would heavily influence his passion for combining sound and motion images.

In 1989 he began recording bands at his home studio in Athens, Ga. where he worked on projects with R.E.M. and Vic Chesnutt. Chesnutt recorded four albums there including 1991’s West of Rome. Stuckey and Chesnutt became close friends and worked on dozens of film and music projects that continued up until Chesnutt’s suicide in 2009. At the time of Chesnutt’s death he and Stuckey were working on a film and a rap album. Neither have been released.

While working on an R.E.M video with director Jem Cohen in the early 1990s Stuckey began to move back to filmmaking. He would go on to direct music videos and documentaries for Thievery Corporation,Widespread Panic, Vic Chesnutt, Bob Mould, Minor Threat,Garbage, and others.

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