The Lowdown

Scott Teems is a Georgia-born filmmaker who is currently a writer, director and executive producer on Sterlin Harjo's The Lowdown for FX. Previously, he spent three seasons as writer, director and producer on the Peabody Award-winning Sundance TV drama Rectify and was a writer-producer on the hit Netflix series Narcos: Mexico.Teems' debut feature as writer-director, the Southern drama That Evening Sun, starring Hal Holbrook and Walton Goggins, premiered at SXSW, where it won the Audience Award and Special Jury Award, and was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards.Teems then directed and co-wrote the Lionsgate release The Quarry, a Texas noir starring Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham and Catalina Sandino Moreno, which was also an official selection of SXSW. Teems' award-winning feature documentary Holbrook/Twain was the opening night film at AFI Docs.Teems' recent work includes three films he wrote or co-wrote which opened No. 1 at the U.S. box office, including Halloween Kills, Insidious: The Red Door and The Exorcist: Believer.

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Scott Teems is a Georgia-born filmmaker who has executive produced on a Peabody Award-winning series.

Headshot of executive producer Scott Teems wearing a white t-shirt, denim jacket outside near a red tent.

Scott Teems | Executive Producer, Writer, Director | The Lowdown on FX

The Lowdown

Scott Teems

Sterlin Harjo

Garrett Basch

Ryan Hawke