Career
She directed The War Tapes, a documentary detailing the personal stories of soldiers in the Iraq War. lieutenant was the first of its kind in that she sent the soldiers video cameras so they can shoot raw footage of their actual, on hand experiences in combat. The show first aired April 1, 2008.
lieutenant reprised her virtual embed technique, focusing on a squad of United States.soldiers deploying as part of the "Surge".
Her latest film, Earth Made Of Glass, had its world premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in World Documentary Competition. A political thriller set in Rwanda and France, Earth Made of Glass features the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame as one of the film"s main characters.
Earth Made of Glass aired on Home Box Office in April 2011 and was nominated as Best Documentary by the Producer"s Guild of America. In 2007, she was a visiting fellow at The Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University with the Global Media Project in the Global Security Program and taught a senior seminar on documentary filmmaking and social change.
Scranton speaks internationally on her "virtual embed" filmmaking technique.
She has spoken at conferences and institutions including TED, Nordic Media Festival, The Frontline Club, Harvard, Yale, Center Foreign Irregular Warfare – Quantico and the Tribeca Cinema Film Series. Scranton started her career in television covering sports events including the Tour de France, the Winter Olympics, and United States Open Tennis and was also a special assignment reporter. Her work has been profiled in publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the International Herald Tribune.
A former United States ski team member, she resides on a farm in the mountains of New Hampshire.
She holds degrees from Brown University and Dartmouth College.