Jeff Smith

Created short films that screened at festivals worldwide. An all-encompassing position from script-writing, to grant writing, budgeting, storyboarding, set & prop design, construction, performance coaching, lighting direction, editing, and overseeing the sound design and scoring. Additionally, I illustrated the posters and designed press packages. I have won numerous awards, and screened at such festivals as:

• Dublin International Film Festival
• Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival
• Berlin Short Film Festival
• Canada Shorts Film Festival
• Austin International Arts Festival
• Toky Shorts Film Festival
• Toronto Indie Shorts Festival
• New York Shorts International Film Festival

Trained new members on how to work in an art department. Oversaw Assistant Art Director’s drawings and co-ordinated with department such as Construction, Set Decoration, Graphics, and Location in the construction of large scale sets. I also created 3D models and digital illustrations of my sets. Credits include:

• The Boys
• Downsizing
• Station Eleven
• Pacific Rim
• Chucky
• Fellow Travellers
• What We Do in the Shadows
• The Incredible Hulk

Co-ordinating and Cost Tracking between Art, Construction, and Set Decoration departments. Daily assisting duties for Art Directors and Set Designers, learning the essentials of drafting, graphics, lighting, and construction. My duties included small scale sets and location augmentations, as well as sign creation and prop graphics like newspapers and soft drink labels. Credits include:

• How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
• Zoom: Academy for Superheroes
• Four Brothers
• Dark Water
• The Perfect Man
• The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio

Sporadic guest lectures, covering film production essentials - from photography to editing - while creating a short film with the students.

Received a government grant to create a television pilot while training locals the various crew positions, including budgeting and scheduling, location scouting, lighting, camera work, production design, sound recording, editing, scoring, and sound design.

Commission to create illustration of the church exterior, as well as various graphic art pieces for mail-outs and displays. Several of these were subsequently sold for fundraising.

Sculpture and mold-making for film and television. Assisted in creating make-up effects such as old-age make-up and animal carcasses for Legends of the Fall, bullet wounds for Natural Born Killers, a dummy monkey for Monkey Trouble, and head casts for In the Mouth of Madness.