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Writer / Director
Scott was raised in the fiercely DIY "Northwoods" of Wisconsin deep in the wild of the Great Lakes region. He and their rural musician community created Oh The Crib! Records where they recorded a few albums for their various bands. He ran camera and sound for a local news station and then went university for photography and digital media.
Today he runs Banana Island Films, which was born in Hanoi, Vietnam during his five years there. They created a music documentary, Hanoi Mixtape, which you can watch at HanoiMixtape.com. Witness Underground is his sophomore documentary and a much bigger project which includes the Witness Underground Podcast and a YouTube series, "XJW Coming Out." His present projects are all focused on artists escaping cults, especially musicians.
The proceeds from his Patreon go towards fostering new art through an ex-cult-member artist grant program. You can stream Witness Underground now at Patreon.com/WitnessUnderground. It humanizes an artist community raised inside of an isolated cult, who later woke up to the lies and abuse, escaped and landed on the outside making impressive multi-genre music throughout the process.
In the folds of a seemingly regular family, Scott Homan's journey began. But little did he know what would unravel before his eyes. A battle between two opposing ideologies shaped his early years, but what he discovered went beyond mere...