The Juror was Tom Rankin, Director of Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies.
Scott's winning project is entitled So Close, So Far: Daily Life and Cartel Violence in Ciudad Juáre. Scott addresses in this project conditions of life an a Mexican border city which is in the midst of a vicious cartel drug war and averages over 3,000 murders a year, making it one of the most dangerous cities on earth.
Tom Rankin says of Scott's work that it suggests "the sense of loss that relentless violence so firmly delivers.and . . . raises unnerving questions about the uncertain and precarious future . . . without sensationalism or stereotypes--his is a fresh, original, and probing engagement with individuals and the social landscape rendered with a transformative radiance."